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In a mobile society nowadays, where people are getting extremely mobile, it is pointless sometimes to keep in touch with your friends just by knowing their home or office address. As people are getting mobile, the exact location of a people you know might know is not the same as always. So, how do you keep track of your friends or relatives just in case you want to know where they are? One method is to track through their mobile number.

How do you do this? There are several options available. Some of network operators do provide services for their subscribers to help locate your friend’s location using their mobile number. You can even use this service to see who your friends that are nearby. However, usually this service is permission based. You can only know the location if your friends allow you to. Another option is to use social media such as Google+ and Facebook function. Google+ and Facebook have the option of letting the people within their circle know where they are currently.

Another option is to use apps. If you are an Android user, they are several apps that you can download for free and allows you track the mobile number of your friends such as Foursquare, Mobile number tracker and loopt apps. But what to do if you been harassed by an unknown number? First and easy option is to just type the number into Google. As people are now posting more and more personal online, it is quite possible you will be able to know who the person is by typing the number into Google search engine.

You might stumble upon this person’s Facebook or Google+. But please take note that mobile number are basically kept private by people because they do not want their privacy to be invade. So, some of the methods listed will sometimes not work and it is a norm. You can only use mobile number to track people only if they allow you to do so.

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Living in this current world nowadays needs us parents to be always on guard of our kids. It is no longer the days you can just leave the kids alone without supervision. There is a need now to keep track where your kids are as bad things can happen to anyone. Even though there are critics saying that parents who are in close scrutiny of their kids will suffocate them, it is best to worry now than sorry later.

It is best than parents need to have that extra precaution to avoid or prevent any misfortune of losing their kids or worst being kidnapped. So, there is where technology comes into place. With smartphones and also the apps that come with it, there are many ways that a parent can track their kids.

Parental monitoring apps have been developed quite extensively lately due to the concern parents have for tracking theirs kids activity and where about. Parents now could actually track their kids phone call, text messages and also their contacts. Parents can also track their kids location and get alerted if the phone traveled to a certain areas. Parents can also put ‘fences’ to a certain location and if the kids phone travel outside this fences, the parents will be alerted.

Parents can be very comfortable knowing where are their kids even though this can be quite invasive on the kids part. Some of the apps such Catch Me If You Can, Protect me if you can or Find my kids footprints are some of the available apps out there that can be install in your kids phone.

When it comes to the privacy of your kids, there is some extent to the level of monitoring that you can do with your kids but it is better to be safe than sorry. This level of monitoring can be discussed with your kids and to let them know that it is of their best interest that a parent should know where they are to what extent their limit to freedom is.