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Giving my kids an iphone to track them with "find my iphone"

macjonny1

macjonny1

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OK here's the deal. I have some daughters and I think that when they come of age I'll give them an iphone, and connect the "find my iphone" service with their phone unsuspectingly. That way, when I find them over at the boyfriends house when they are supposed to be somewhere else, well....I gotta figure out the rest. They are only 5 & 8 but it isn't too early to stay one step ahead ! :D

They'll never know why dad seems so omnipotent....

Or, maybe there are things that are better left unknown...:rolleyes:

By the way, I'm not being serious here but I did think it was a funny idea
 
your daughter would never forgive you. Plus lets face it they are going to date and when they date at some point they are going to spend some time over at their BF place and you will know they are going over there. Not much you can do to stop it. Best you can do is raise them right and hope they listen.
 
By that time, they will know better and will leave their iPhone at their girlfriend's house and claim that the battery died. Cell phones do NOT keep kids from doing what they aren't supposed to be doing! We won't have total control until they can imbed a LoJack under their skin! LOL
 
Don't worry. Unless they are doing the dew in an open field PMiP will be less than accurate. You'll have to sync up/have access to each others mobileme's too. Hopefully your daughters bf doesn't accidentally upload pictures of his shagging success in the gallery lol. If they caught you snooing (i.e. a "where are you going??" alert message) they could just leave the phone charged up at their girlfriends house (still reporting that local) and forward all calls to a prepaid. Too easy.
 
i guess another thing is, when he sees them at the BF's House on mobile me, he can also send a warning message, and threaten to remote wipe, etc.:p
 
By that time, your teenage daughters will be more tech savvy than you will be. Or, they will get help from their tech savvy boyfriends. :eek::D
 
dukebound85 said:
lol always amuses me how some parents think their daughters having bf's is a "bad" thing
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haha same here. my dad says to me."you need to talk to girls more...." even tho i have a lot of really good friends that are girls, but he also says to my sister. "stay away from boys etc. there so icky."haha:p but honestly, those guys in her class are pretty weird.:rolleyes:
 
sushi said:
Oh young one, wait until you become a parent and have girls of which you are worried about. You perspective may change. :)
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haha. that reminds me of when one of my teachers had a baby girl, he then updated his facebook/twitter/whatever status to "Im shopping for shotguns":p
 
sushi said:
Oh young one, wait until you become a parent and have girls of which you are worried about. You perspective may change. :)
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That may be so, but it still doesn't change the fact that our parents most likely did the same! Now we do it and so will our kids... it might be tough to overcome, but it's natural and it's what's gonna happen!
 
AT&T has location services now (9.99 a month for 2 months, 14.99 for 3-5 i believe) You can track the phones on a map. Each phone that you set it up on gets a one time text message that says the location service has been turned on thats it. No settings on the phone that can turn it off.
 
If you want your daughters to hate you and do things to spite you because you don't trust them, go ahead.
 
exhibit.b said:
AT&T has location services now (9.99 a month for 2 months, 14.99 for 3-5 i believe) You can track the phones on a map. Each phone that you set it up on gets a one time text message that says the location service has been turned on thats it. No settings on the phone that can turn it off.
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Yep. Was going to post this as well. From my understanding it must be a compatible phone that supports the service, but I would expect that list to be growing all the time.
 
jessica. said:
They're 5 & 8!
Those kids are in for it .. seriously. 5 & 8? How far can they stray?
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Seriously, if your (meaning the OP) letting them run around freely to the point where you are thinking of getting them an iPhone to track their locations at ages 5 and 8 you might wanna take a look at what YOUR doing wrong.

My daughter is 7 and pretty social and no way do I need to 'track' her whereabouts. If I have any questions, I ask the parents "How they doin?" and that's that.

Now the kids across the street (sounds like your kids) they'll end up on milk boxes (yah I know they don't do that anymore) but at 5 and 8 and bf's? I know all my daughters classmates and other friends and the last thing on their mind are boys. Mostly it's iCarley or Hannah Montana. LOL

And yes I did catch the 'joking' part but to even suggest thinking that at ages 5 and 8. When they do reach the age of 'spying' on them, there's bound to be a much better way to track them.
 
exhibit.b said:
AT&T has location services now (9.99 a month for 2 months, 14.99 for 3-5 i believe) You can track the phones on a map. Each phone that you set it up on gets a one time text message that says the location service has been turned on thats it. No settings on the phone that can turn it off.
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I tried the AT&T FamilyMap and found that it wasn't nearly as accurate as MobileMe's Find My Phone feature. Find My Phone consistently locates my phone with a few dozen yards of its actual location whereas FamilyMap is either out of service or places you within 3,000 miles of Kansas.
 
Hi, My name is Melinda, and I bought FindMyPhone so that I could figure out where I was... incase I was ever lost and had a laptop with wifi and needed to find out where I was. Thank God for that.
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wonder if anybody used the iphone as a find my car yet. I know of people that used the sprint locator like a lojack for car.
 
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