‘[It] started feeling like surveillance with a smile’: Clingy older sibling repeatedly follows their younger sibling using location sharing on Life360, so the youngest decides to stop sharing their whereabouts with the whole family

Many people covet others' close sibling relationships. We're all so attached to our phones nowadays that we don't even communicate with our family face-to-face, and instead, send each other memes from the couch to the loveseat. In the same vein, we're all too connected because of our phones; Location sharing has become the norm for family and friends alike, and all it takes is one bad apple to make you regret ever sharing your whereabouts in the first place.

The younger sibling featured in this story explains that their entire family shares their locations on the grounds of safety and security. It makes sense for parents and siblings to have each other's location, especially because it saves everyone a phone call or text message. It's easy to get caught up in the all-knowing-ness of it all, so it's important to tread carefully. The younger sibling has a family stalker: Their older sibling.

It's important to call it what it is. Their sibling pops up everywhere they are, regardless of whether they are with friends or acting as a lone wolf. Privacy is important to all of us, and the older sibling is exercising a major breach of trust. To think that they even call the youngest ungrateful when they decide to turn their location off…