business insider is a great place to find unhinged screeds

Not long ago if you left your house you were unreachable. In fact, the only way someone was reachable was if they were home or at work and had a phone there. Imagine that, just not knowing where and how people were at all times.

I'm glad he divorced his paranoid stalker of a wife. He just wanted to relax and have a beer after work at the brewery without telling his wife once, and she turned it into all this nonsense. Then she stalked his location constantly and made a big deal about him getting fast food without telling her once. Imagine being trapped in a marriage with such a controlling wife that you can't even go to McDonalds or have a beer after work without them freaking out. Nightmare scenario.

Foucault must be bussin in his grave.

This is everyone in the suburbs. My relatives send their kids to a summer camp where the main draw is a daily proof of life and frequent check ins and having an app to monitor the kids. Look, I'm all for safety (no really I am, more on this later), but it really seems to be more about the social media aspect of it, and removing any chance for kids to disconnect from parents socially even temporarily.

my partner and i have done this for years. Not to this unhealthy degree of course but we share location. I started doing it because they would ask for eta as i was driving home from work. It was a bit of an unpredictable commute due to long running major construction and i didnt want to text and drive so i turned my location sharing on.

On the flip side I mainly use it to find them in crowds when they wander off to go look at stuff a vendor is selling or whatever. its not super accurate but gets me close enough.

I'm here just thinking how permanently having your GPS enabled to broadcast your location might obliterate your phone's battery

I would simply not willingly submit myself to the panopticon

My partner has Nancy Drew'd me as well.

I guess some people hear the lyrics to Every Breath You Take by The Police and think, "How ❤️❤️❤️ romantic!"

I am more of a "don't eff/date/marry your stalker" kind of person.

really excited for the next step of loving surveillance technology, like apps that slave all the nearby microphones and let your "loved ones" record and playback every word from every conversation you have throughout the day and watch you on CCTV. so you can be safe from all the extremely high crime rates and terrorism.

and they can feel safe knowing that you will never leave them without them being 3 steps ahead of you.

I expect my future husband to send me hourly reports on the length and girth of his hog

My partner used to have us do that Life 360 location tracking stuff and I hated it. Just felt fucking wrong. I don't need to be watched and held accountable for every second of everything I do and I have zero desire to spy on my partner. This thing of wanting to know where everyone is at all times is so fucking weird to me.

Straight women need to be sent to conversion therapy to make them gay

Half of what makes a relationship work are the tiny lies we tell to one another.

Imagine not being able to tell someone you are totally already on the train, definitely didn't spend 3 hours curling your hair and then had to take a taxi you couldn't afford so you could show up looking impossibly good.