A magical tool to check on the relationship of all bad men and women? A real test of Gaode Family Map

From the "College Entrance Examination Traffic Jam Prevention" strategy to the "Water Accumulation Reminder" function, and then to the "Real-time Intercom" navigation, Amap launched several new features in July.

The most notable feature is the " Family Map " feature that was launched "low-key" last week. Once it was launched, Weibo went viral again, with some netizens shouting " This is a great tool for checking up on people, it can defeat all the bad guys and girls ", while others protested " It's an invasion of privacy, I've uninstalled it ".

Support or criticism, we use data to speak for ourselves. Three days after the launch of the "Family Map" feature, Amap's ranking on the iOS free app list jumped from outside the top 20 to the top 10, reaching its highest ranking in nearly three months.

It is not difficult to see that there are still many users who have a demand for (or are curious about) this feature. What kind of new feature is this? Lao Ya first tries out the Family Map.

According to Gaode's official instructions, the family map can be used to " confirm the safety of family members' locations " and " set location reminders ", with the purpose of more conveniently confirming the safety of the elderly and children at home.

We can directly enter the family map function in [More Tools] - [Featured] in Gaode Map, enable location permissions according to the prompts, and create or enter a "joining code" to use the family map.

Unlike what many netizens imagine, the family map will "share" each other's location information in real time by default, and family members in the group can choose whether to "share my location with family members", so the kind of secret check-in does not exist.

In addition to viewing real-time location information, the Family Map also has a " Friends and Family Location Reminder " function that can be accurate to within 200 meters. By marking a location on the map for the selected family member, a notification will be sent to the person who set it when the family member arrives or leaves the location.

We can also directly click "Go find him/her" for navigation. If a family member has added a phone number, we can also click "Call him/her" to get in touch with the family member. We can even know the battery level of our family member's mobile phone and get a reminder when the battery level is less than 10%.

We can see that if we talk about it from the perspective of "protection", the family map function does help some users to confirm the safety of their families, especially families with elderly people and children.

For example, if an elderly person with Alzheimer's disease in the family accidentally runs away, we can use this function to roughly confirm the elderly person's location, which may be much clearer than calling him directly.

However, many users believe that this function, which is open to the public, exposes privacy and kidnaps emotions.

The other person can clearly know where you are, where you have been, and how long you have been there. What is even more suffocating is the uneasiness and distrust hidden behind the question " Where are you? Why did you turn off the location sharing ?" What seems to be a protective action may be full of pressure for the protected person.

But Laoya believes that it is unfair and even hypocritical to transfer the potential contradictions to the tools. Tools themselves are neither good nor bad. The key lies in the people who use them.

A gun can shoot, but that doesn't mean it's the gun's fault if it goes off accidentally; a player can broadcast live video, but how can it be blamed if someone is caught watching a video? Besides, Apple's "Find" and WeChat's "Location" also provide similar functions, so why only blame Amap? Before Family Maps, how many people didn't use WeChat to check on their friends/were checked on by WeChat?

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