Do you share your location? Do you do location sharing with anyone in your life?

Or do you follow anyone's location in your life?

I share my location with my kids because they don't allow me to go anywhere else.

They're going to make sure you're saying they're grown.

I'm not like obsessed about that stuff, but my best friend is.

So she'll be like, oh, you're at Bryan Park Street at work, so I can't call you right now.

She checks to see when she can call me. I go everywhere, so I just let people know where I am. You don't care. You're like, whatever. Because I'm always on the move. Do the people in your life need to know where you are? From what I heard talking to people in Bryant Park in New York City,

I'd say location sharing is quickly becoming a new social norm. One survey from market research polling firm, Civic Science, found that 41% of Americans share their location with someone they know.

I often hear the joke about location sharing where people say, you know,

it feels like I'm checking in on my Sims every day. But there's a bunch of new social rules,

some tricky etiquette, and a whole trove of privacy questions that come with this technology.

Are we just trading privacy for convenience? And who really needs to know where you are?

That man does not need your location.

To break it all down, I'm here with Gina Sherrillis, New York Times-Styles reporter and writer of their third-wheel dating column.

Thanks for having me.

And Tatum Hunter, internet culture reporter at the Washington Post.

Yeah, same.

Hello, hello.

I'm Brittany Luce, and you're listening to It's Been a Minute from NPR, a show about what's going on in culture and why it doesn't happen by accident.

Do you share your location or track anyone else?

I have one or two friends who I share my location with almost as a bit where, you know,

we turned it on forever ago. We never turned it off. And now we'll acknowledge it once every six months. For the people where it makes the least sense for them to

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