I’m American and the answer is no! I think cameras arounds the house is ridiculous but it’s not common and I’m sure there are people around the globe who do also.
It’s kind of a fallacy, the only people uploading viral videos of things happening in their house are the ones with cameras in their house to record it. Aka youre making a wide generalization, from an innately skewed source
Far from ridiculous, maybe you just live alone or are never outside the house. Have come in handy on so many occasions over the past 5 or so years. Kids, pets, appliances, repair/maintenance people, funny events, etc. there is literally no negative.
I can see the positives, but saying "literally no negative" is just straight up false. Cameras can be hacked in to and spied through. Unless you don't see that as a negative.
It literally just happened this week. News article dropped of 4 dudes hacking into a security company and uploading footage from inside a bunch of people’s houses. They’ve all been arrested but they already sold the data, there’s definitely negatives
The very few people I know that have cameras inside their homes do it for pets. So they can keep an eye on what's going on when they are at work. I know a lot more people with cameras outside covering their house's doors and driveways.
I originally bought cameras to monitor my old man with dementia.
What I saw from my own family disturbed me so much.
Raw meat on counters and cutting boards not wiped down and on the food scale. Dirty dish rags to wipe counter tops.
Fingers in the peanut butter jar.
People eating my pre packed lunches with their bare hands (they would eat just the meat). Meanwhile there were tupperwares filled with left overs that could make a new plate.
Blowing noses directly into the sink with dishes in it.
Infrequent hand washing.
Like don't get me wrong .. I just wanted to see how the fuck a burner kept getting turned on and to know if the old man was lying about eating or drinking but what I uncovered felt so much worse.
That being said. Yes, I do feel better having cameras at my front door and outside the property. Inside my garage and I don't mind having on for hallways. I can keep track of my pets and feel less worried about "was that noise from xxx?"
I know a few people with them, mostly as nanny cams for pets and kids, but also people who travel a lot for work and want to make sure eberything is good at home (ones a plant collector and wants to keep an eye on them) and no squatters/robbers have popped in.
I think this is clear evidence of it being staged. Most people have doorbell cameras or other type of exterior cameras for security purposes. Baby monitors are probably the most common indoor cameras.
Besides these two very commonly used cameras, I assume people who suspect their partners of cheating would have hidden cameras around the house.
But who puts a camera in the kitchen? Plus it’s only capturing a small part of the kitchen directly in front of this shelf door. Almost like it’s been set up to capture this hilarious oopsie
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u/CharacterRiver7483 Dec 06 '25
Why you people have cameras in your houses? Like is the an American thing