Google Timeline

I got an email inviting me to look at my Google Timeline based on it spying on me and where I’ve gone for the last ten years or so.

It’s amazingly accurate in the main and I found it pretty fascinating. Then I noticed a couple of red dots in Scotland where, to my shame, I’ve not been for 30 years.

After a little investigation I discovered that I drove to Dundee from the End of the Road festival near Salisbury last month. Perhaps as an alternative to being driven back to Norwich by my friend.
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And also back in 2013 it reckons that I popped to Glasgow and back twice one afternoon.

Aside from that it seems pretty accurate.

Anyone else not been where Google reckons you have?

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I find this really useful, and often think that if I’m accused of any murders then I can use this to show that I was nowhere near the scene of the crime.

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this thread could serve a similar purpose (as long as the crime took place in Belgium)

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Use this all the time to fill in my work timesheet based on when I arrived and left the office. Like the monthly roundups too where it pinpoints I went to a slightly out the way Co-op

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This doesn’t help if I have Scottish murders pinned on me.

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Then you’ll just have to use the ice knife

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Google reckons I popped to Manchester for the afternoon one day at 2000 Trees last year. :man_shrugging:

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Got an e-mail about something similar to this last year. Was able to trace full nights out I’d been on that were ten years ago. Would rather this didn’t exist please.

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It’s only been wrong for me once that I noticed. I was sat for ages thinking “I don’t remember being in Bolton at all, I’m loosing me fuckin marbles”

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Ok let’s see here…

Wanking

Wanking

Another wank

Quick wank there

Oh fourth time’s a charm haha

And then it says at 8.42, I got off the bus

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Mine tells me that I’m in the sea of the coast of Australia and I’m not sure that’s 100% right

Likewise the Norwich thread, though it’s a bit of a shambles what with people posting when they were in Norwich or where they are in South Norfolk or Broadband districts.

Had to use it last Saturday to find out where I went on Friday night.

I keep mine on in case a work colleague asks me what I did at the weekend.

I really love looking through my Google Timeline even though it is an extremely dystopian thing to exist

Lol

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Very useful in lockdown I found

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