Life 360

[Swampfox762]

Was just checking up on where my "kid" was, and see she's almost home on her anniversary night. 

Life 360. 

Love that app. Might want to look at it...for your family.  Though...most "family members"... won't want to install it.  It's...an "older" thing.  SOMEBODY has to watch over my ass!!!!

[Historian]

Honestly.  No.  I don't want my wife knowing where I sneak off to for a beer.

I mean...have the fun is having two and getting home before she realizes Home Depot isn't serving me beer. 

Gonna need something like this soon.   Little Historian is growing up.

[LostinTexas]

Had it for a while. It was comforting since I was out of pocket and LostWife sells real estate. Ya never know.

It got wonky, then got to it wouldn't let us back in, then we just dumped it. More trouble than it was worth, but it was nice while it lasted.

[Huaco Kid]

Hell no.

If they want to know where I am, call.  Leave a message.

And unleash your kid.  Let them wander.  That's where normal young adults come from.

[Historian]

6 minutes ago, Huaco Kid said:

Hell no.

If they want to know where I am, call.  Leave a message.

And unleash your kid.  Let them wander.  That's where normal young adults come from.

When you have a son you worry about one (Bleep) when you have a daughter you worry about all (Bleeps).

 

[Huaco Kid]

And, on a total flip,  I found a small device in a parking lot today (NJ).  I don't know what it is.

It's about the size of a large key fob.  It says "GPS" on it,  and a small led occasionally blinks.  It has a small metal locking wire,  that was obviously cut.

I'm going to carry it around NYC and see if the mafia or the traffickers get me.

[Huaco Kid]

Just now, Historian said:

When you have a son you worry about one (Bleep) when you have a daughter you worry about all (Bleeps).

 

BTDT.

[Batesmotel]

There are apparently some serious downsides to it. 

Insurance companies getting access to driving data. 

Kids just leaving phones home instead of being spied on. 

Psychiatrists warning about stresses on kids never having any privacy.

Kids hiding it on parent’s phone. 

No thanks.  

Edited March 28, 2021 by Batesmotel

[Batesmotel]

5 minutes ago, Huaco Kid said:

And, on a total flip,  I found a small device in a parking lot today (NJ).  I don't know what it is.

It's about the size of a large key fob.  It says "GPS" on it,  and a small led occasionally blinks.  It has a small metal locking wire,  that was obviously cut.

I'm going to carry it around NYC and see if the mafia or the traffickers get me.

Leave it in a taxi. 

[Historian]

2 minutes ago, Batesmotel said:

There are apparently some serious downsides to it. 

 

Give the kids a moral background and the ability and tools to make the right choices.

Chances are in your favor.

I wouldn't track my wife.  She knows where i go to check out for a bit.

And honestly as someone once said, "This brewery is the kind of place you want your husband to sneak of for a beer.  He's not going to get in trouble here."

In my case she would say you work a lot and need to stay out of gun shops.

[crockett]

1 hour ago, Huaco Kid said:

Hell no.

If they want to know where I am, call.  Leave a message.

And unleash your kid.  Let them wander.  That's where normal young adults come from.

 

What he said. No way in hell would I let my parents control me like that. I'd root / hack my phone or that app and fake the locations.

When I grew up there was no curfew, ever. I stayed over night at friends houses as early as 7 years old. We did our first kids only over night camping in tents around age 10. We would wander off into the forest, to the lakes, to the bars where they had arcade games, hang around malls with no adult let alone parent around, ever, every day. If we missed dinner, we arranged our own meals.

Had my first VHS recorder at age 14 and watched porn that I was able to rent. Nobody gave a flying ****. First GF and sex at age 16 with my parents next door, and they knew what was going on. Never a single word.

There was no school bus either. My mom took me to the school the first couple days, after that it was either walking or riding my small bicycle, crossing a bunch of streets with heavy traffic and no crosswalks around.

These days kids are brought up like idiots, many live their lives online and don't know a thing about real challenges. And we face the consequences right now.

Teach them how to be able to learn on their own, how to be independent and truthful, how to deal with consequences instead of making everything easy. Life is not easy. Let them roam and be free. Being a role model is often all it takes.

Edited March 28, 2021 by crockett

[gwalchmai]

1 hour ago, Huaco Kid said:

And, on a total flip,  I found a small device in a parking lot today (NJ).  I don't know what it is.

It's about the size of a large key fob.  It says "GPS" on it,  and a small led occasionally blinks.  It has a small metal locking wire,  that was obviously cut.

I'm going to carry it around NYC and see if the mafia or the traffickers get me.

May God have mercy on their asses.

[LostinTexas]

It must be really stressful being some of you people.

Life 360 is a friggin App. It does what you tell it to. It has to be set up on the device, no remote setup without someone on the device giving permission. They don't want you using their app to shadow celebrities and politicians, even though the latter isn't too bad an idea.

If anyone doesn't want to play along, all they have to do is turn off the GPS, turn off permissions in the app, or just uninstall the app. Most 5 year olds can do it before you get out of the room after handing it to them. No 007 needed. ?

Thanks to swampfox for another entertaining thread. It was a nice tool until it went off the reservation. Looks like they got what ever ironed out. We may look into it again.

Edited March 28, 2021 by LostinTexas

[LostinTexas]

14 hours ago, Huaco Kid said:

And, on a total flip,  I found a small device in a parking lot today (NJ).  I don't know what it is.

It's about the size of a large key fob.  It says "GPS" on it,  and a small led occasionally blinks.  It has a small metal locking wire,  that was obviously cut.

I'm going to carry it around NYC and see if the mafia or the traffickers get me.

I've always wondered how well those devices work. Let us know how it works out for you.

Which one is it? GPS locater

Edited March 28, 2021 by LostinTexas

[Swampfox762]

[railfancwb]

On 3/27/2021 at 10:25 PM, Huaco Kid said:

And, on a total flip,  I found a small device in a parking lot today (NJ).  I don't know what it is.

It's about the size of a large key fob.  It says "GPS" on it,  and a small led occasionally blinks.  It has a small metal locking wire,  that was obviously cut.

I'm going to carry it around NYC and see if the mafia or the traffickers get me.

Some thriller/spy type movie where the hero was being tracked, he found the device in his coat pocket and tossed it out a window into an open top garbage truck which was just starting to go. Remember all that about one scene and nothing else about the movie...