Should They Kill Find my Friends?

[ajiuo]

Nope.. They updated it.. They are not killing it

 

[CB1234]

I did it.
I actually turned on Find My Iphone on her phone, as i know her apple id password* and now i can locate her whenever i want.

*it wasn't too hard, it's her name spelled backwards. She isn't that smart, is she?

God forbid and if she finds out what you did, you will end up on her Block List....

 

[j4zb4]

No it shouldn't... And it just got better... Also I always wondered why Google killed latitude it was a lovely app... Especially for us group riders who like to go on long journeys and sometimes got seperated / took a wrong turn in low or no network areas... It was a battery hog but did its job well...

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no, please, don't give them any wrong ideas. We use find friends a lot to track our kids.

If i remember correctly, google went that way. They used to have google latitude (that worked across platforms), killed it and incorporated its functionality into google maps, and then killed that too, forcing people to use google+ to post their locations, which is much less convenient.

Find friends works great, leave it alone.

+1

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You mean the app lets you stalk people.. only weirdo's would want to stalk their friends

A message app is not a tracking app so please at least use a decent example to prove your not valid point

All those talking about stalking maybe have those tendencies themselves... I have many friends on the app but I have never done that... And I'm sure none of them have done it either... Just use it at times we need to find each other rather than calling and wasting time on asking for directions or landmarks... Much easier... Also we meet up for drinks very regularly... Now I live very close to it and a couple of my friends live some distance away... So once I know they've reached I leave home and join them... Now you'd say why not just call... Well it's one of those things that just makes things a less of a burden...

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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.

You do know that someone can track you on FMF only when you permit someone to... And that you can take away the permissions "ANY TIME YOU WANT"... I don't know where people get the idea of "oh my privacy is invaded by people I don't like"... Don't wanna be tracked by certain people don't accept their requests... If you accept their requests for a particular day give them temperory rights or remove them once the event is done... And for gods sake stop spreading misinformation...

 

[j4zb4]

Double post

 

[mantan]

I did it.
I actually turned on Find My Iphone on her phone, as i know her apple id password* and now i can locate her whenever i want.

*it wasn't too hard, it's her name spelled backwards. She isn't that smart, is she?

I seriously hope you're kidding. If not, I hope she finds out and dumps your butt quick.

 

[C DM]

I still don't understand why people people how others might be using something? What does it matter? And even if matters to you for some weird reason, what's the point of making it a point of telling everyone about it as it really doesn't matter to them?

 

[mantan]

Careful expressing that use on this forum. There is a very vocal minority on here who thinks that this is an invasion of your kids' privacy; if you need to resort to this behavior you have no trust and are in a dysfunctional relationship.

I DO NOT subscribe to this philosophy as I use FmF often to keep tabs on the whereabouts of my family. It is a great app.

I'm surprised to find myself somewhat in that vocal minority.

Surprised because I"m a parent of a 16 and 12 year old whose parental philosophy has always been that we are parents, not friends. Our job is to give them firm boundaries and raise them to be responsible adults. (Believe me, I hear all the time how I'm harder than their friend's dad)

But part of me feels like the current generation of parents 'helicopter' their kids too much. Part of growing up is learning to have a little independence. Tracking my kids every movement feels a bit overbearing. If I need to know where my kids are, I call or text them. If they broke my trust or did something to make me implement FmF with them, I would...but until then I opted not to load it.

But each parent has to make the decision that's right for their family. I totally understand that some parents want that type of real time information, it's just not for me.

 

[Night Spring]

But part of me feels like the current generation of parents 'helicopter' their kids too much. Part of growing up is learning to have a little independence. Tracking my kids every movement feels a bit overbearing. If I need to know where my kids are, I call or text them. If they broke my trust or did something to make me implement FmF with them, I would...but until then I opted not to load it.

But each parent has to make the decision that's right for their family. I totally understand that some parents want that type of real time information, it's just not for me.

You would only be tracking them real time if you kept the app always open and staring at it all the time. Otherwise, it only shows you where they are at the moment you open the app to check. It's not like it shows you a history of where they've been when you didn't have the app open.

 

[msvadi]

Also I always wondered why Google killed latitude it was a lovely app...

Because Google is evil They have killed so many great products: Reader, Sync just to name a few other examples.

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I stopped using it (as did all of my friends) because of how many times you had to authenticate to keep the damn thing working. It'd be much more widely used if you didn't need to enter your password every five seconds.

Just enable Passcode lock. You should have it on anyway.