So you might be considering responding...The saying goes, you could make something very simple and you'll eventually learn of someone who still has difficulty with it.
So you simply don't use it. There are well defined controls in the app for those that do want to use it as far as who you want to be able to see your location or simply to turn off your location.Find My Friends is too creepy for me. I don't want to find my friends and I don't want them to find me. If we're meeting up, we'll agree a location.
Dislike the idea. When I use Find Friends it's because I want to find where someone is. The thread author is unhappy because he attempted to use Find Friends for Maps purposes. If I want to do that, I'd use Maps.
Just because Find Friends uses a map to display its information doesn't make it redundant. The primary goal of Maps relates to finding static information on a map. Find Friends is about finding someone's dynamic location. Because they both utilize information on a map it would technically be possible to merge the two, but in my opinion that would make Maps needlessly bloated.Huh? No, functionally it would be the same. His point is that having a separate app is redundant.
You can. Go into Maps and tap on the blue dot that indicates your present location. This will bring up a little bubble that says "Current location" - tap it to bring up the Maps entry for that location. Now tap "Share" at the upper right-hand corner of the screen. You can send via text message, email, Twitter, or Facebook; if you're sending to another iOS user, they'll be able to bring it up within Maps from your text message.I should be able to send someone my location and know that they will be able to see it because they use iOS, just as easily as I send an imessage.
. Because they both utilize information on a map it would technically be possible to merge the two, but in my opinion that would make Maps needlessly bloated.
Now tap "Share" at the upper right-hand corner of the screen. You can send via text message, email, Twitter, or Facebook; if you're sending to another iOS user, they'll be able to bring it up within Maps from your text message.
I'd agree that Find Friends has a very limited set of options and they could afford to do more there, but I don't see how that translates into needing to merge it with Maps. And if you want to have someone view your dynamically changing location, they can do it from within Find Friends. I feel that I'm probably missing something in what you're thinking, though; could you expand further?How so? It's not like FMF has a lot of options. They could replace the share button with a FMF one, and have all the options on one scrolling screen, including the old share option (or just get rid of it entirely, and replace it with a web option for non-iOS users.)
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That is not the same, as it just sends a static location.
I feel that I'm probably missing something in what you're thinking, though; could you expand further?
I see. Personally, I don't think that it makes a difference; you would need to tell someone to enable Find Friends to use it, anyway, so having to ask them to download it first is one small, extra step that wouldn't get in the way of having it used.It goes back to my point of needing it to be built-in to the OS to be most useful, since I don't have to worry if a friend has installed it or not. And at that point, I think they may as well roll it into Maps. I don't think it justifies a separate app,
at least with its current feature set. But if Apple started to include FMF by default, I'd be happy.
I see. Personally, I don't think that it makes a difference; you would need to tell someone to enable Find Friends to use it, anyway, so having to ask them to download it first is one small, extra step that wouldn't get in the way of having it used.
There'a a bit of a trade-off between offering the feature and making it too easy to use. Aside from privacy concerns, being able to see a person's location in near-real time is rather powerful.
Find My Friends is too creepy for me. I don't want to find my friends and I don't want them to find me. If we're meeting up, we'll agree a location.
I can understand some friends never use fmf app just because it is too ceepy and they don't want them know where they are so Apple should rename this app to "Find my Family" instead.
Foursquare doesn't allow you to follow the current location of various people that authorized you to do so without any input on their part after they have authorized you. Foursquare doesn't allow someone else who you authorized to follow your location or see where you are after you've authorized them and without any more work on your part after that. Fairly different use cases there.This app is creepy... Seriously, I know two or three stories about stalking boyfriends and girlfriends using this app.
And I don't see how is this better over Foursquare.
I'm not a fan of any person tracking app unless it's for very specific needs. If you want to keep tabs on your kids or anyone with special needs, I see the merit of using such an app or feature.
However being that I'm in the security-field, I'm quite biased to the concept of how this could serve to invade someone's privacy as I'm sure not everyone enjoys the idea that someone else has tabs on you at their convenience.
So you might be considering responding with "well you can disable location services for the app" but not everyone's as iOS savvy as you are. What may be simple for you may not necessarily hold true for someone else. The saying goes, you could make something very simple and you'll eventually learn of someone who still has difficulty with it.
If you install an app with the feature set of FMF's, IMHO you're consenting to the possibly that you may be tracked for "other than good" reasons. So for example, if a kid in school suddenly gets mugged after school because what he/she thought were their friends were in reality weren't... well you get the idea.
Find My Friends is too creepy for me. I don't want to find my friends and I don't want them to find me. If we're meeting up, we'll agree a location.
From your incorrect points it's clear that you never looked at the app or how it works ...