I confronted someone who removed me from Find My Friends. It was mortifying.
I followed Daniel around for four years on Find My Friends before he removed me from his contact list. We didn’t have a single conversation during that time, but I felt like I understood the basic blueprint of his life. About every other day, I would log on to Find My Friends and scroll through my people, checking in on my parents and college roommates.
This was, of course, totally reasonable. Daniel and I aren’t actually friends. We met in high school, when we regularly competed against each other in speech and debate tournaments, representing different schools from different cities. Later, I became close friends with someone who was also friends with Daniel, and toward the end of college, we spent a day together with a bigger group of people. Somehow, we started talking about Find My Friends, and thought it would be funny to add each other.
, for lots of people under 30, location sharing is “simply the next step in digital intimacy after following someone on Instagram,” part of a never-ending march to the beat of surveillance capitalism.There’s a very specific utility to Find My Friends: safety. We may try to sound cavalier about it, but it’s actual fear that drives you to ask a friend to check on your whereabouts during a Bumble date.
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