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‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 21 points 1 year ago (17 children)

I don't know, it's a pointless thing that I just forgot to turn off at some point. I couldn't care less if she knows where I am and sometimes I do what her to know, like when I go hiking alone.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    Are you happy with the company that makes the app and the 71960 partner companies with "legitimate interest" knowing where you are all the time too?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Might I suggest this: https://www.zood.xyz/

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I have my mom's location, and it's good because she just turned 64 (I think) five minutes ago, I need to wish her a happy birthday, appreciate the reminder. But when she travels out alone, sometimes it's nice to know she got back to her hotel without having to bother her about it, so we do the sharing thing. And for hiking alone, sharing your location with someone beforehand just seems like a good idea.

    This article is dumb. Location sharing is silly. People will abuse it, and those same people would've found some other way to abuse the trust in their relationships anyway. I had girlfriends as a kid who'd demand calls when I was at a party they weren't at. Dealing with a lack of trust in a relationship is a growing pain.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    People will abuse it, and those same people would've found some other way to abuse the trust in their relationships anyway.

    The WHOLE point of this thread is that NO this is a new entirely more persistent tool of abuse.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    If your partner doesn't abuse it is fine, but that's also possible to change at any time.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Further most people don't know they are in abusive relationships even if it is obvious to others around them so the casually dismissive argument "well abusive couples shouldn't use it" is a trash argument.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Whether you know it or not does not change the message. Abusive couples shouldn't not use this app, they shouldn't be couples.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    My point is when people use this argument "Well abusive couples just shouldn't be couples!" it is a way to dismiss the danger of never ending surveillance that makes an INCREDIBLY problematic leap of condemning people falling into abusive relationships to simply suffer, tough luck... and it demonstrates a callous, ineffective and frankly worrying understanding of how abusive relationships formed in general.

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