Location-sharing apps are meant to stop anxiety. They can also turn us into obsessives. By Damian Whitworth
The Times,December 16 2019, 12:01am
In September my wife and a group of her friends did a 100km through-the-night walk along the River Thames for charity. I kept up with them most of the way, but there were periods when I was asleep or lost them in the woods.
I was tracking them with an app on my phone that showed an avatar of my wife moving steadily along the towpath towards Henley-on-Thames. Then I checked around 3am and found her smiling face floating in the middle of the river between Maidenhead and Marlow. When she was still there 15 minutes later I sent her a text. No reply. I zoomed in on the satellite map and saw it was densely wooded along the riverbank. I pictured a stumble in
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Location sharing: is tracking our loved ones driving us mad? - The Times
