It is supposed to help parents sleep at night, now it is their children who will not leave them alone.
Thanks to family monitoring applications such as Life360, a new generation of adolescents has turned their parents’ tables, using the digital strap for safety to spy, headline and score snacks.
The trend has been called “Fambushing”, a “family” and “ambush” mashup and parents say that peace, privacy and its queso.
“I can never go in peace,” Mother Nicole Deroy wrote in a recent Tiktok clip, where he revealed that his teenager is now tracking each movement.
“POV: You downloaded Live360 when your teenager started driving to ensure that they were safe, but now they keep track of all the movements,” he wrote.
Some mothers even receive surprise visits while eating.
“When your daughter takes your location and you see that you are eating Mexican food,” Chrysta titled her Tiktok video, who documents her daughter stopped at the restaurant. “I hate life360”.
Jayme Beecher Crosby struck with the final chip when his teenage daughter showed up at the restaurant table and helped herself.
“When your daughter tracks you in life 360 and presents to steal chips/sauce and water,” he wrote.
According to Life360, adolescents, especially the crowd of driving, now open the application by 25% more often than their parents and establish 70% more “place alerts”, becoming opportunities for gifts for gift or family members.
And gene Z, the first generation of true digital natives, does not stop.
Between the SNAP map and the location of the iPhone, many teenagers know where everyone is, all the time, and they are not shy to throw.
“Safe” is the term number 1 that comes to my head for 66% of the respondents of gene Z when they think of the sharing of locations, “said parents Lauren Antonoff, Life360’s COO.
“Eighty-seven percent of Z-gene respondents said they use technology for long distance driving, 80% when they visit new or dangerous places, 77% when they go to an event, concert or festival and 78% when they go to the party or on a date.”
Antonoff adds: “72% of women on gene Z believe that their physical benefits of well -being of location compartment.”
However, even experts admit that this digital snooping can go too far, especially when they are the children who play parents.
“When teenagers keep track of their parents and presented themselves without warning to ask for things like Starbucks or walks, it can blur the line between connection and control,” the pediatrician and mother, Dr. Mona Amin, told The Outlet.
“If a parent followed a teenager in this way, reviewing or appearing constantly, we probably called him the helicopter parenting.”
“The key is to make sure that there are agreed limits and that adolescents still learn to ask, not just access,” added Dr. Amin.
“Parents are also people and teach them to foster mutual respect.”
As reported earlier from the publication, almost nine out of ten north -Americans say sharing their location really makes life better, at least according to Life360, the monitoring application with 80 million users and counting.
However, there are still warnings.
Connecticut’s mother, Jennifer Long, had no problem tracking her teenagers at Life360, until the tables turned.
When her daughters saw that she was “doing an aesthetic job,” the mother’s mother struck the digital door, blocking -each movement.
“It’s really more me taking into account their Security, “he told The Post.
So the next time you leave for Margarites? Maybe you go to the airplane mode.
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