Top 3 Major reasons to get a family locator app

Getting more than what was promised

Marga Tolero
3 min readDec 5, 2017

Family location app has been widely used among all modern and old-school family. Everyone, even children owns a mobile phone now. Though Text messaging and calls come in handy, seeing our loved one’s exact location would make us feel at ease and comfortable.

Family locator apps are promising real-time location, wherever, whenever, you can see each members location. You may also use this to send messages. It also notifies you when someone you’re locating, has arrived their destination.
These apps also allow you as well to review the location history for the past few days. It can track not just our loved ones but also our lost or stolen phone. The best thing about locator apps is that it needs consent from both users. There is just a specific time where you will be monitored. That means that your location will not identify unless you allow the access.

We can see that most of these applications offer almost the same thing but what can we get aside from what was mentioned?

Security, this is something that we cannot always buy with money. Using the application, we are more secured where our family members and friends without constantly texting or calling them. Especially in this very busy society, our family member might be in a meeting or attending the class and cannot reply right away, we can just easily see where they are in just a few clicks.

Peace of mind, as we all know there’s a million dollar industry for security systems. Security camera, alarm systems and a lot more. Stress and worries bring illness and pain to our bodies. Having a technology where you can have the access to your family member’s location. To be notified if the location is safe or not is another way of letting our loved one’s vigilant or avoid this kind of places.

Assurance, we may admit it or not. We are once one of those teenagers who would occasionally lie to our parents about our location especially when we hang out with our friends. We would say that we are near the school but we are somewhere else exploring the world. As parents, we should think in advance and be able to control our children’s activities especially if they are still very young and easy going. Indeed, trust is important but the feeling of assurance that our loved ones are safe is better.

There are still lots of unwritten benefits when it comes to knowing the location of our family and friends. Beyond all those features from different applications, are the priceless feelings of parents, friends, and anyone who care for us. Thanks to technology we can be able to easily and conveniently access things that matter most. As parents, partner or friends, we also need to make sure that know our limitations. Let’s use the application with good intentions and for the purpose of security, not control. We still need to establish trust among our family and friends and have the application to aid us in making sure that they are safe.

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