A 16-year-old student preparing for the JEE has shared her worries on Reddit regarding her parents installing a CCTV camera in her room to oversee her studying. In the post, she shares that the camera was set up 7 months before her message, expressing her anger and helplessness regarding the parents choice, yet feeling powerless to change it.
In the post, she additionally mentions that she moved her room but discovered another CCTV camera placed in her new room. She also conveys her frustration towards her parents and expresses her desire to leave home at the age of 16.
The Reddit post published on subreddit, r/IndianTeenagers, with title ‘Camera installed in my room’, has been deleted. The post published one day ago has 3.5 thousand likes and over a thousand comments.
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The post read: “So I’m 16f, preparing for jee, my parents decided to install a camera in my room 7 months earlier and I was so pissed off with this decision but couldn’t do anything about it. They installed the camera and used it to monitor me 24/7. I recently shifted my room, hoping that they wouldn’t install a camera here, but guess what? Today, they’ve installed it and the worst part is I can’t even argue about it. I just wanna leave my house asap, I’m so done with my parents.”
Similar Posts On Reddit
Another post made four months ago on subreddit named r/AmIOverthinking by an user u/No-Tangerine2915, about their parents installing camera in their dorm room shared with sister. The student has been studying abroad sharing the arguement about the camera facing the door should not be a problem and shared how the parents are minutely tracking their locations and now invading their privacy. The post has over eight thousand likes and two thousand comments on the post.
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The post read: “Am I overreacting about my parents putting a camera in my sister’s and my dorm room?
So I’m studying abroad and my parents are putting a camera in our room. They’re insisting that if it’s facing the door it’s not a problem, but I think that they just want to monitor everyone of our moves. They already have our live locations, they already know when we go out where we go out everything. I’m just asking to not have a camera in the room. They say I’ll understand if I had kids. And we got in an argument about it and I’ve been crying for two days and they act like I’m fucking crazy for being so mad about it. They tell me that I’m being immature for not wanting that. Is it really that hard to understand that I don’t want it because I don’t want to feel monitored every second of my life??
Edit: thanks to everyone for your answers I definitely did not expect that many so thank you also to add more details:
We both are adults yes but we completely depend on them for everything material and they keep using the excuse that they’ve done everything for us so I should accept this “little” thing and my studies are quite long so I’ll have to put up with it for a lonnng time
Also the camera is facing the front door with the kitchen next to it, so not the room in itself but it still bothers me and it can hear everything we say too
I’ve tried unplugging it once and my dad called me in the middle of the night screaming at me to plug it back in.”
There are more such posts on different subreddits on the site that share similiar story of parents installing up CCTV camera in the rooms of their children to be monitored. Concerns regarding invasion of privacy and applied mental pressure due to continuous monitoring by parents are rising,
Netizens React
People in the comment sections have been suportive and finding solutions for the girls who posted their concerns on the subreddits. Some of them have criticised the parents, provided the girls with solution and questioned the parent’s motive behind invading their privacy.
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Protectiveness Or Problematic?
Although the internet largely backs students who confront parents over their intrusion into privacy and the stress on children’s mental health due to constant monitoring, there are individuals who do not see it as an issue and advocate for the parents and defending their actions as the students in both instances are younger females living independently, arguing that it stems from a protective instinct of the parents in light of rising crime rates today.
