DISQUS

Mark Atwood · 3 years ago

I call this syndrome "Parents Disease", because I keep seeing it happen over and over. I'm fully convienced that it's a type of brain damage, possibly caused by lack of sleep and then then guilt.

It's bad enough as it is, the real problem is that such parents also use their political muscle to forcably recruit the government and their neighbors into supporting their insane paranoia.

They've destroyed rock concerts, band camps, SF cons, SCA gatherings, and such, because the people who were teens at those events a generation ago have grown up, and gone back and in their paranoia about their own kids, forcably stopped the kind of stuff they themselves did.

I'm firmly convienced that we're going to see the same thing happen in the raver scene, as ravers grow up, have kids, and their kids grow up to the age they are now.

A pox on the lot of you.

V · 3 years ago

This may be the dumbest idea on the market. First of all, cell phones can already be tracked, if you have a warrant. It does no good if they're turned off, of course, but neither will GPS.

Any kid who's really up to no good (and a few who are just resentful of surveillance) would just have to take out the battery and suddenly he turns invisible.

And of course the more widespread and well-known that technology becomes, the more likely it is for kidnappers to search their victims for phones.

Everyone loses.

Swagy · 3 years ago

While I can see the valid uses of this technology. The technology is quite amazing. I have some pause in unfettered enthusiastic support for the product. My paranoia quickly ran into overdrive with thoughts of an overenthusiastic government tracking me, or worse my wife keeping tack on me or perhaps my boss wanting to know just what I am up to and just where I am when he is paying me.

Now I know that I am being paranoid here, as the government would not breach my right of privacy with this technology, umm wait on, did they not just install a monitoring office in a phone company, are they not doing this already. I guess the government is doing it so that pipe dream of freedom just bit the dust, but I know my partner would not do it, umm, maybe. My boss I know would, the only thing stopping him is his tightwad attitude, he may do the math and find that it is cheaper just to pay me rather than pay extra to find me.

Dana · 3 years ago

While it's true that we all would like to know the whereabouts of our children/spouse 24/7, I think that over time it would probably become too taxing on ourselves. Unless one enjoys being a security/body guard, this job will soon become tiresome. It would take away some doubt but could also add to it. I am a paranoid parent myself. Each of my 3 children have a cell phone. That should give me peace of mind right? After all, all I have to do is either call or send a message? Wrong. Many a time they were unreachable. Either the phone was off, silent, the battery wasn't charge or there was no service in the area. But do I think of these logical explanation? On no. The first thought that crosses my mind is, they've been kidnapped. (Mind you, my oldest is 18)Yes, I'm pathetic. But I'm also a mother who would simply die if tragedy should stikde any of my children. I prefer the good old days when I used to play outside all day long and only went home for meals. My mother never worried. She knew I couldn't go far on foot and crime was practically non-existant then. Besides, I always got hungry or thirsty.

jennifer · 3 years ago

i want to know where my kids are when they go to school. please help me to track them.

crol · 2 years ago

oh, i think that it's totally INTRUSIVE!