I stumbled across this comical image while digging around for GPS teen tracking providers. It really got me thinking. It seems that EVERYONE is taking a stealthy approach to son and daughter tracking. The pitch is to buy a device and install it without your teen ever knowing. It’s as though we’ve lost all trust in the youth of America. I do realize it’s a VERY TOUGH sell to a teenager to say “we don’t trust you and that’s why we’re installing this GPS tracking device in your car”. I can’t see any teen going for that…I wouldn’t have back in my day.

At Ublip, we do believe in the Track ‘Em and Tell ‘Em approach that Henry mentioned in a previous post. My quote about “not trusting” mentioned above was extreme and I believe there are other ways to get teens to adopt (or at least consider) our technology. On several occasions I’ve explained our technology to a friend or family member and the conversation generally shifts in the direction of spying on somebody and even the fear of “big brother”. A lot of markets we’re selling into don’t have a human element at all and the assets (pumps, generators, construction equipment, etc) are screaming to be tracked. Now if we can just get our teens to do the same we’ll be in good shape. Believe me, we’re thinking about it.