(Swarm, a spin-off of Foursquare, lets users “check in” at certain locations, but doesn’t otherwise broadcast their locations as they move around.) Find My Friends, an Apple app, exists only on iPhones, but Google Maps, Snapchat, and Facebook Messenger all have location-sharing integration too. But in recent years, sharing one’s location with friends over smartphones has become the norm for some social groups. This is admittedly a niche use for Find My Friends. “I never want to sing when anyone’s in my house with me.” So before she gets in the shower, she checks the location-sharing app Find My Friends on her phone to see whether her roommates are home, or whether she’s free to belt as loud as she wants. “I don’t sound good,” Mohr, a 20-year-old college junior studying information science at Temple University in Philadelphia, told me. Stay resilient.Jennifer Mohr likes to sing in the shower, but she doesn’t want anyone to hear her. “If you’re really interested and committed to that friendship, exhaust all reasons why that person is not calling you back or reaching out before you call it quits on the friendship. Some people do have a tendency to withdraw if they’re going through a tough time (a lost job, divorce or some other problem), she says. The caveat is, don’t give up too quickly, notes Hojjat. If you find yourself ignoring texts, not returning calls, and not wanting to find time in your schedule for a person: That’s your own red flag the relationship isn’t bringing you what it once did or ought to, Degges-White says.If a friend is constantly putting you off or canceling plans: “You can forgive the first time or two, but if the pattern continues you need to decide whether this is way of cutting you out,” Degges-White says - or find out if something else is going on.But if you’re not getting anything out of that friendship and it puts you in a bad mood, be wary. Your friend has no redeeming qualities: Maybe a friend is always up for a round of golf or they’re the neighbor who’ll grab our mail when we’re away - even if we don’t like everything about that person, Degges-White says.But when interactions are repeatedly no longer fun, take note, Degges-White says. You feel worse, not better, after spending time with a friend: Sure we all might get caught up lamenting a work problem or breakup from time to time.“Spend time with people who truly care about you and are supportive.” If there’s more negative than positive: There shouldn’t be more wrong with a friendship than there is right, Hojjat says.The big no-no’s: If someone is stealing from you, spreading rumors, lying to you or not supporting you, those are all pretty major transgressions that break the commitment that fundamental define what a friend is, Hojjat says.Here are a few cues it may be time to invest a little less:
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