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It took a few weeks before Elise, 21, discovered she could look at her metadata by tapping on the three dots on her BeReal posts (a UX designer’s oversight?). She could then see how many retakes were taken, how many comments and reaction photos she got, and the precise geolocation where the photo was snapped. Once you know all this information is there, it’s fairly easy to deactivate the map.
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Elise hasn’t bothered. The truth is, she said she has nothing to hide. Since the advent of geolocation-sharing tools like Snap Map and Find My Friends in the 2010s, ambiently “tracking” the location of friends and family is so normalized within certain social circles that some people report never not knowing where their contacts are. Daniel, 26, thinks of Find My Friends as a “quality of life improvement” — and has successfully converted even his most resistant friends into users. “If I met you at a party, I would be so fine giving you my location. I see it as a badge of pride that I have nothing to hide,” he said. “I wish I had the location of every single person I’ve ever met.” His boomer-generation parents, however, “scream at him” whenever he mentions it, so horrified by his disregard for the hallowed concept of privacy. Destini, 29, is always checking where her best friend is “not in a creepy way but as a courtesy.” If she’s at work, Destini won’t bother her with trivial texts. Ben, 30, turns his location-sharing on and off frequently. “I should be allowed to drop in and out of it, and my friends respect that. They can joke about where I am when I go dark,” he said. The compromise is that he has to intentionally “stop sharing.” Categorizing a hangout as clandestine is one more form of preconceived socializing. “These apps, but BeReal in particular, have a forced participation aspect,” said Andrew Selepak, PhD, a mass communications professor at the University of Florida. “It is no longer the format of ‘I’m selectively sharing what I want to,’ but sharing whatever possible.” BeReal instituted itself as yet another platform necessary for having a social life. Designed as an “authentic,” filterless alternative to the shopping-mall catwalk of Instagram, the two-year-old French app feels closer to early ’grams of morning coffee, Mayfair filter on. Though there is a distinct difference between now and 2011. BeReal capitalizes on the knowledge that we’re on our phones all the time, and the proof is that a daily push notification with two minutes to photograph yourself and your immediate surroundings works — so well that excessive glitches don’t deter. In July, BeReal spent three days as the App Store’s No. 1 free app and is at 20 million downloads by conservative estimates. Snapchat’s live map function debuted a few months before 2017’s Hurricane Harvey, when it “communicated the breadth of the disaster better than a slickly produced cable news broadcast ever could,” according to Wired. In 2020, developers brought Snap Map “to the forefront of the app,” and “since then, engagement has grown by more than 50 million users monthly,” a spokesperson for the company said. The $4/month premium version that launched this July makes it possible to see a “ghost trail” of where someone — or at least their phone — has traveled in the past 24 hours. It has inspired hundreds of “beware of this new feature” TikToks. But the growing user base is a young set. The other prominent social GPS tool — not including the IRL game of geocaching that had a moment in the 2010s — is Find My Friends, launched in the iPhone 4s era as a way to share one’s location with four people at a time. When it debuted, location sharing automatically expired at the end of each day, but soon after came indefinite sharing. Three years ago, Apple merged Find My Friends and Find My iPhone into one catchall: “Find My.” The streamlined ability to toggle between the whereabouts of your work laptop and your work wife could signal that within this experience, at least, people are their devices, or that they only exist when accompanying them.
app that shows friends location
app to show location of friends