As people’s lives become more intertwined and knowing where someone is becomes crucial – ‘Where are you?’ ‘I’m running late!’ ‘Are you okay?’ – so too does Google Maps come to the rescue. If you’re already a regular user of Google Maps, you might already share your location. If you want to know how to do that, this guide is for you. Just like it helps you get from A to B more safely, Google Maps can help you create a closer network of friends and relations – or make sure that those you love know where you are. This guide explains how. Sharing your location with friends and family through Google Maps is a powerful way of staying connected with those closest to you. People care for one another and want to keep in touch. Being able to share your location with people you care about can help you all stay safer and connected. Google Maps brings people together by removing some of the barriers to knowing where you are, why and how. In this guide, we give you an insight into the processes, advantages and risks of sharing your location with friends and family through Google Maps.
How often have you shared your location on Google Maps as a simple matter of course or good manners? Google Maps are designed to make sharing your location – and thereby your whereabouts – easy. A couple of taps before meeting with a friend, or a relative, and potential travellers’ worries are assuaged. Running late? Google will let them know! Are you safely home? Has someone arrived for our date? Did their flight make it? Nothing easier than logging in to Google Maps to check each other’s whereabouts. Google is there to help you seal the photographic geotagged gap between you.
You don’t have a Google account? No problem, Google Maps wants to include you, too! While using Google Maps with a non-Google account limits some features, such as saving locations, it doesn’t mean you’re entirely excluded. Maybe you want to share your real-time location with someone – just copy the link and send it in the messaging app of your choice! Google wants to connect everyone, and keep them connected, regardless of the other apps and services they use.
(When punctuality is more important, Google Maps lets you share your estimated time of arrival, or ETA, useful for meet-ups: ‘I’ll arrive at 4:42pm.’) People being the cringy saps they can be, waiting might in the past have been a guessing game.
For every iteration of great power comes great responsibility. Google is well aware of this dynamic, thus why you have the ability to customise your privacy settings and to remind your friends of what locations they’re tracking – whether you’re providing your loved ones access to your exact journey or checking in on family members to make sure they’re safe personally, Google Maps allow for your sharing to occur with the amount of control you require over who is seeing where you are going and for how long.
In the centre of Google Maps’ location-sharing feature lies the heart of Google’s empire, committed to providing information in the way it should be – accessible and useful to all. Innovation is Google’s mantra, and for Google Maps, the tool that links us and keeps us safe, it never stops.
In the age of Google where technology is synonymous with connectivity, if you know how to use the new location sharing feature of Google Maps, then your relationships will be better and you will be much safer. Be it checking in with your loved ones, meeting up with friends or having piece of mind while selling or trading in your Google wares to the folks at Gizmogo, there are countless ways the digital world can make your relationships better, your life safer and let you embrace technology.
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