LetterHen Abby Katzap was studying abroad in Florence and traveling with his friends through Europe and sharing his iPhone places in Find My. Then 19 -year -old, her girlfriend began the idea, and one of them argues that sharing the place makes her safe at night in Dublin while walking home alone.
However, the native of New York City was hesitant to find the Find My App that tracks him. A student of law school soon recalls: “I thought it was strange. It was terrible.” Independent“But then I told my friends,” Well, well, if you guys are so worried, here, just take my place. ”
Three years later, Katzap’s list of Katzap friends has grown in Find My, with 30 people accessing him every move. And this has led to an internal conflict as to whether and when, when it is time to stop the subscription.
Available for iPhone owners, My My app allows users to easily put family and friends on a digital map. When the place is shared between friends, when that person is in the gym, goes to school or reaches safe and healthy home, notifications can also be sent. It also uses all Apple products, including laptops, iPads, AirPods and Airtags.
Typically, young people like Katzap, now 21 years old, rely on the program to trace locations. A recent study by Civic Science found that 65 % of the General Z adults are likely to use location sharing and 16 % of these adults share their places with at least 5 people. Instagram is also accompanied by trends and has just launched a map feature that followers can find each other in real time.
Sharing the location is now a booming business in the digital world, where we constantly want to know. Kim Rip, LPC, a professional consultant and practition owner in the Keystone Therapy group, explains: “It seems expected that being close to someone will allow the level of access to their lives at all times, although I am a basic basis for access to each other.” IndependentHuman beings “seem that general ZS does not see it as a violation of privacy, but as a necessity of trust and reflection of how they are valued.”
As a 27-year-old General Z in Brooklyn, New York, I have been found for 5 years with 17 people on their location sharing list, a eager user-some of them include parents, sisters, boyfriends and friends from childhood.
Although this is not a social media program, I will find several times a day to see what my friends are. This is a shameless act, because we are open to each other, but there are consequences of access to our friends like these consequences. Reviewing the program and seeing two of my friends who were getting without me made me feel anxious, something I didn’t anticipate when I opened the program as part of my daily ceremony. The roles have also been reversed.
I keep my findings from the program to myself despite the hurt feelings. I also know that finding me is not to blame for the unnecessary damage I feel, that if I only delete the program it can be eliminated – though I don’t intend to do so.
“We tend to assume the best goals in ourselves and the worst in others,” Ripy says. “But if we want to give others the same doubt that we give ourselves, then my program will not be as much anxiety. The problem is not the program, the problem is how users interpret what they see.”
However, 26-year-old Anna-Grass Boulen admits that she relies too much on my program. Manhattan -based an assistant explains that in college, he had two loved ones who actively check his place, and receives such as such, “I see that you are in the barley trader, can you get something for me?” This led Bolon to turn off his place when he was in certain places.
“This was not one -sided,” he says.
Since then, and after nine years of use Find My, Bolon only reduced its location list to 11 people. “I went and removed people from a program I didn’t feel like I couldn’t communicate with,” he said. “I am a completely open person. My close friends usually know what I have.”
At the same time, Katzap has never conflicted with his friends because of Find My, but he admits that he is not close to the 30 people who have his place. He says that removing them is very unpleasant because it is an end to friendship.
“When is my time to finish some relationships?” He says. “Sometimes you can’t remove numbers from your phone because it reminds you of a specific course in your life. Remove the same places. My friends who don’t talk to, like a girl they wanted to walk alone in Dublin, we never removed. Since we had so much love in Dublin.”
Similar to Katzap, I gradually started sharing places with people during the night and just didn’t turn them off. I felt that our relationships were special because they wanted to keep their places.
However, it was four years ago, and now I know that some of these places are not a necessity, because they do not reinforce my friendship at all. However, I am still afraid that if they are removed from the program, I will insult friends, this is a view that encourages us to get away.
“Especially with General ZS, your friends’ places have always been there, so removing them makes you feel terrible. It feels like I have done something wrong. You don’t need the best friend to add.” “I think that if young people change it to the best friends, emergency resources, and family members, the only people are in it, if one is eliminated, it will not cause as much reaction.”
