The rising popularity of location tracking apps such as Life360 suggests that young people are increasingly happy for their parents to be able to see where they are all the time.
Other apps such as Google’s Family Link and Apple’s Find My are also being used by Gen Z to share their location with parents and friends while they travel to school, drive – or even during dates.
Location tracking can be turned off and on so that a user can maintain privacy when they want it, but according to a 2022 survey carried out by The Harris Poll, 16% of US adults have the setting activated all the time.
“The turbulence of Gen Z’s adolescence spawned a mental health crisis that was only amplified by the pandemic, social media, and the 24-hour news cycle,” said Dr Michele Borba, a educational psychologist and spokesperson for Life360.
Seventy-two percent of GenZ female respondents said they believed their physical wellbeing benefits from location sharing, per the survey.
“There’s an intimacy that’s intertwined with that act,” Michael Sake, a senior lecturer in digital sociology at City, University of London, told The New York Times.
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The rising popularity of location tracking apps such as Life360 suggests that young people are increasingly happy for their parents to be able to see where they are all the time.
Other apps such as Google’s Family Link and Apple’s Find My are also being used by Gen Z to share their location with parents and friends while they travel to school, drive – or even during dates.
Location tracking can be turned off and on so that a user can maintain privacy when they want it, but according to a 2022 survey carried out by The Harris Poll, 16% of US adults have the setting activated all the time.
“The turbulence of Gen Z’s adolescence spawned a mental health crisis that was only amplified by the pandemic, social media, and the 24-hour news cycle,” said Dr Michele Borba, a educational psychologist and spokesperson for Life360.
Seventy-two percent of GenZ female respondents said they believed their physical wellbeing benefits from location sharing, per the survey.
“There’s an intimacy that’s intertwined with that act,” Michael Sake, a senior lecturer in digital sociology at City, University of London, told The New York Times.
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