How To Track Your Boyfriend.. If You Must
Considering they had that much access, the change might be a good thing (or a reason to break up), but why all the furor? Women and men have been tracking their partners -legally - for years.
Sure, some of this is down to good-old-fashioned obsessiveness, but theres no need to circumvent the system when so many options are freely available.
Here are a few:
Google Latitude
The first tracking app to receive mass attention, through a basic installation and syncing process was Google Latitude. It let you "connect" with certain people and allow them to see where you were, via a handy GPS identifier dot in Google Maps. First time I used this was with college housemates, and as I traveled around the world, it was nice to see where people were.
Sadly, this function was retired on August 9, 2013, when Latitude closed up shop. Alternatives such as Life360 and FindmyFriends offer similar services.
Facebook Mobile
People check Facebook a LOT. Like, a ridiculous amount. Its estimated that people check Facebook on their mobile around 14 times a day. And when you check, youre likely to "like," to upload photos, to add a status. All of these have timecodes AND -- especially on mobile -- often have a location code. Thus, you now have a fair gauge of what they were "liking" and where. All legitly.
Foursquare
Foursquare is a geo-location social network and the whole idea of it is that you are MEANT TO BROADCAST just where you are at all time, security be damned. This way you can keep track of your significant other/crushs whereabouts and see just what theyre eating at the Oyster Shack/Rib Place. Not only do you know where they are you can also see WHO else was there at the same time, which could either relax you or add to your paranoia. Look, youre stalking someone on Foursquare, Im going to guess that paranoia is a constant state youre living with.
Instagram
Instagram is not traditionally in a stalkers toolkit but dont discount it too quickly. For one, no one can resist instagramming pictures where they look hot/ sunkissed/ have pretty cocktails and this can give you a great insight into whether theyre where theyre supposed to be. Plus, a little known factoid of Instagram is that it has an "upload location" feature. However, when it "maps your location" in this manner, its from the place the photo was TAKEN regardless if you upload it 1000 miles away two weeks later.
If none of these ways take your fancy, or you consider them too mundane, there are still a number of stalker-esque aops available. The Boyfriend Tracker may be gone, but a brief Google shows that many MANY exist that give you access to your partners SMS messages remotely, such as Spy Your Love, which gives you Facebook and SMS message updates and Text Watcher Message Spy.
So what have we learnt here? There are many ways to keep track of what your partner is doing, but if youre expending this much energy, stress and sneakiness, maybe they shouldn't be your partner...
Было изменено: 14:17 13/10/2013.
Sure, some of this is down to good-old-fashioned obsessiveness, but theres no need to circumvent the system when so many options are freely available.
Here are a few:
Google Latitude
The first tracking app to receive mass attention, through a basic installation and syncing process was Google Latitude. It let you "connect" with certain people and allow them to see where you were, via a handy GPS identifier dot in Google Maps. First time I used this was with college housemates, and as I traveled around the world, it was nice to see where people were.
Sadly, this function was retired on August 9, 2013, when Latitude closed up shop. Alternatives such as Life360 and FindmyFriends offer similar services.
Facebook Mobile
People check Facebook a LOT. Like, a ridiculous amount. Its estimated that people check Facebook on their mobile around 14 times a day. And when you check, youre likely to "like," to upload photos, to add a status. All of these have timecodes AND -- especially on mobile -- often have a location code. Thus, you now have a fair gauge of what they were "liking" and where. All legitly.
Foursquare
Foursquare is a geo-location social network and the whole idea of it is that you are MEANT TO BROADCAST just where you are at all time, security be damned. This way you can keep track of your significant other/crushs whereabouts and see just what theyre eating at the Oyster Shack/Rib Place. Not only do you know where they are you can also see WHO else was there at the same time, which could either relax you or add to your paranoia. Look, youre stalking someone on Foursquare, Im going to guess that paranoia is a constant state youre living with.
Instagram is not traditionally in a stalkers toolkit but dont discount it too quickly. For one, no one can resist instagramming pictures where they look hot/ sunkissed/ have pretty cocktails and this can give you a great insight into whether theyre where theyre supposed to be. Plus, a little known factoid of Instagram is that it has an "upload location" feature. However, when it "maps your location" in this manner, its from the place the photo was TAKEN regardless if you upload it 1000 miles away two weeks later.
If none of these ways take your fancy, or you consider them too mundane, there are still a number of stalker-esque aops available. The Boyfriend Tracker may be gone, but a brief Google shows that many MANY exist that give you access to your partners SMS messages remotely, such as Spy Your Love, which gives you Facebook and SMS message updates and Text Watcher Message Spy.
So what have we learnt here? There are many ways to keep track of what your partner is doing, but if youre expending this much energy, stress and sneakiness, maybe they shouldn't be your partner...
Было изменено: 14:17 13/10/2013.
