>>>>Now, I come from a time when whatever I did always found its way back to my parents...
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>>Everything? ;-)
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>>>>We, our country and others, did not realize the civilizing effect of having people live together throughout their lives, over generations.
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>>Will muse on that, thanks. For the Interweb to offer similar civilizing effect will probably require common carrier rules and eradication of anonymous accounts that always seem to be part of the trouble. Meanwhile I've closed Facebook and other accounts to avoid worsening intrusiveness; even my Samsung phone recently demanded access to Contacts if I want to count steps using their Health app, so that I'm now looking at Chinese phones that may be used oppressively elsewhere, but seem to be the least intrusive for Western users. Who would have thought it?
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>How about the Pine phones, or any other phone with Linux instead of the proprietary spying OSes on them? I'm still on Symbian exactly for that reason - my Nokia E5 is ten years old - but the number of things which I can't do because I don't have a compatible phone is slowly growing. Nobody here seems to even know that such things exist, and most of the instructional videos that I find are not about removing Android from a phone, but rather about running Linux as an app under Android - which is not the goal.

There is something to be said about these new technologies, like OS or Android. I have an iPhone. One of my daughters routinely asks me to take her dog for a day or two (when a worker(s) are coming to her house; the dog is big and people are afraid). I picked her dog yesterday afternoon. And I noticed that whenever I go outside, I get an AirTag notification on my iPhone. The notification tells me that I can find the AirTag and show "it" on the map. This morning I realized that my daughter bought this AirTag and put it on the dog's collar. So, if the dog runs away, she can find her. I never let the dog off leash; so it is probably not necessary for me. But my daughter does leave the dog off leash often; so it makes sense to her.
What was surprising is that iPhone "sensed" the presence of the AirTag without me installing anything or turning any setting. I read about it now on the AirTag site. I think this is a cool device which probably won't be developed for older technologies.