People who leave their blinds/curtains open all the time so everyone can see them do their business C or D?

"serious privacy issues"

lol porn.

Our neighbours across the road does this, and they leave all the lights on. So from certain angles you can see right through to the back of their house.

voyeurweb.com

I should set up a webcam paysite, but they're the most boring non-descript bunch of people. So the only way to make money from it would be to charge a hefty joining fee, plus have automatic rebilling coupled with an arcane and labyrinthine subscription cancelling procedure.

So, uh, what, you're saying windows are dreadful stuff, or what?
Or are these people doing jumping jacks in the nude?

i like to look out of my windows

i'm talking about night really, where you can't see out but people can see in. and it's not looking at them i'm worried about, they're mostly boring and ignorable, i just can't wrap my head around how one goes through life like that comfortably.

i've never understood this either, I know a few people who do it too and all i can put it down to is they just don't realise how exposed they really are.

What is up with them? I would say they're exhibitionists but there are so many of them. And they're all watching TV. Do people just feel invisible when they're in their homes, even they are totally visible?

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what is wrong with not giving a shit what passers by think or deduce about your home? windows are good to look out of too. who doesn't want to sit in their house gazing out of the window.

lol why r u creeping n your neighbour's windows???

i do this i guess my apt isnt that big and i like the illusion of space it gives + during the day its nice to have some natural light. the street facing windows in my apt have their blinds up right now - i usually feel like if ppl really want 2 watch me sit on my couch typing on my laptop they have my blessing

when i do "my business" i close my blinds, otherwise, what-everrrr

i figure give em a show u know ive been working out l8ly wtf

uh I'm mainly talking about at night btw

"mainly"? how much time do u spend looking into other ppl's homes?

Pretty much just night time.

i'm with n/a - this is really weird

altho now that i look up i notice that all three street facing windows have the blinds up but i guess they're high enough that if someone looked in they'd just see my ceiling

ppl are always doing this tho

There's an old Greek woman who lives across from us who sits at her front window and stares out basically all day. It doesn't worry me tho because you can't really see much at the front of our house anyway. Also it's good from a neighbourhood watch point of view i guess..

i bet she's staring out the window because crime is her entertainment.

And I know she doesn't do it at night time tho because I had to inform her her cat had been run over out the front of her house a while back :(

:(

We have 3 windows across the front of the apt. None currently have curtains, mostly b/c I need a drill and another curtain rod in order to put them up. But even if they did, I want them open during the day for light, and the view. Do people really go around and close all their drapes at night just in case, if they even have them?

i think proximity to other units and how far your apartment/house is above street level makes a difference.

It does, but Nick is OTM about this. It's a mile to and from my girlfriend's place, of densely populated residential neighborhood, and I walk it all the time. Even after dark, there are dozens and dozens of people, even at street level, that leave all the blinds wide open. Sometimes they're cooking or something, but they're almost always watching TV. I suppose they know that what they are doing is extremely uninteresting, but somehow it makes me feel uncomfortable just to be able to see it.

I am, however, waiting for that one time that I walk by to see a woman in leather and heels and a cat-o-nine-tails viciously beating a man in a ball gag. But I'm not holding my breath.

there are dozens and dozens of people, even at street level, that leave all the blinds wide open. Sometimes they're cooking or something, but they're almost always watching TV.

This is true of my neighborhood as well.

Someone I had drinx w last month was telling me that it's v common in the Netherlands to leave your living room curtains open as if to say, "Go ahead and look in -- nothing fishy going on here!". The implication being that if you CLOSED your curtains, you'd have something to hide.

Do I go around and close all of my curtains/blinds every evening when the sun goes down? Absolutely. My apartment has a ton of windows and the train goes right by most of them, from the living room to the kitchen to the bedroom. NO WAY do I need that many strangers looking inside my apartment. The thought of them being open is fairly horrifying, tbh.

when i do "my business" i close my blinds, otherwise, what-everrrr

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^^ i still feel this way, four months later

lights on = curtains closed

open windows into the boring, uneventful lives of strangers

this is what ppl did before blogs

we live on the 2nd floor above street level, and we have curtains that are always closed on the bedroom windows, but we only have curtains on one of the three big windows in the living room that faces out on the street. I'm more conscious of people being able to see in than my bf, who will sometimes start "doing our business" in said living room.

there are dozens and dozens of people, even at street level, that leave all the blinds wide open. Sometimes they're cooking or something, but they're almost always watching TV.

This is true of my neighborhood as well.

― sarahel

really?? one of the things i first noticed upon moving here is how, walking down the street during the day, everyone has their blinds closed, even ppl several stories up.

we have ours closed all day/night for two reasons:
1. there's no privacy around the back of our apartment, and i don't want to have worry that i'm fully dressed all the time
2. our living room houses an expensive book collection so no sun can be allowed to fade the book spines

a lot of people in our neighborhood have fairly flimsy blinds/curtains, so we can still see their tv.

The one thing I've noticed over the last few weeks during walks around our neighborhood (thanks to hueg TVs and open curtains) at night is that, yes, there really are THAT many people watching Leno.

Yeah, this is what I mean -- first of all I don't like blinds, so curtains are the only acceptable option. Second, I like a nice set of sheers but they don't do anything after dark. You gotta have full-on heavy drapes or something opaque enough to block the nosiest of neighbors.

I'd like to think I'll someday have a domestic routine that's that settled, but right now, we barely have furniture. So eh.

our neighbors have much more expensive tv's and furniture than we do.

yes, there really are THAT many people watching Leno.

haha I do like it when I catch a glimpse of something on TV that I approve of. Like, "Oh! They're watching Deadwood. These are my kind of strangers."

our neighbors appear to either be watching sports, cable news, or commercials. they really make commercials with much faster edits than they used to.

Like, "Oh! They're watching Deadwood. These are my kind of strangers."

Yes! I saw some neighbors watching The Wire one day and it made me want to knock on the door and immediately befriend them.

close view of a huge apt building - instant community of intimate strangers

kinda jealous of the lady in the building across the alley that has room in her living room for an exercise bike.

that time of day lonely day trader is drinking his protein shake

i was kinda sad when the nice young man with large well-organized cd shelves moved out.

he was really an inspiration.

i live on the 14th floor in a building and I don't even have blinds / shades. I can see into other people's windows in my building and I am sure they can look into my place. I don't really care tbh.

I don't have blinds or shades either. Moving in August involved hemorrhaging enough money, between deposits and u-haul rentals and buying furniture, that window coverings are still not very high on the list of things to buy. But I live on a dead-end street and figure that the people in the other buildings on the street probably don't care enough to be staring into my windows.

reading how many people are blase about not having window coverings makes me realize that i am sort of a freak about this. even if i had no neighbors, even if i had no money, i would pin gross old sheets over my windows before i could live with them being uncovered.

deer
strangers
goats
passers by

DO NOT LOOK INTO MY HOME

My mother is a little crazy about curtains too. And blinds. She always behaved as if I were in MORTAL PERIL of having someone looking into my second-floor window way down a country road. Like it would be the worst thing ever, when not one single neighbor could see into our upstairs (I mean I guess you could see a bit of ceiling from that angle if you stood right across the street but hell). It's one thing to not feel civilized without curtains in a room, but the prudishness always seemed excessive to me.

I would leave curtains open all the time if I could, but now I live street level, and there's a lot of traffic for the drug dealer next door...

The only thing that concerns me about open blinds is not wanting people to see me in a state of undress. Otherwise, if I'm just watching TV or cooking, who cares?

The idea that anybody in my neighborhood would give one (1) crap about what I am doing in my living room is mystifying to me. We close the drapes when we got to bed at night, otherwise, they're open. Esp. if the weather's nice and we've got the windows open to get some air into the house. Why even have windows if you're just going to close off the view all the time? Just brick 'em up.

but it's not prudishness re: nudity. i don't really distinguish between people seeing me walk around in my skivvies and people seeing me cook/pace around/read on the couch/watch tv. i just don't like people watching me do anything. i vant to be alone.

they're open during the day btw

Having once walked with my mate and his lil innocent sister past the house of a fat dude in the nude bending over to stroke his cat, I am a fan of curtains/blinds being closed. That image still gives me the creeps.

i'm fine w/people who might happen to glance upward and at the right angle seeing me walk around in a t-shirt and underwear.

I spent more time running around nude when we didn't have blinds because I figured anyone staring into our windows deserved everything they saw.

I live on the 3rd floor and all the buildings around me are lower (except for the one right next door that was foreclosed and is empty) so I do EVERYTHING with my blinds open. I don't really care if someone does see me anyway.

I always used to wonder why none of my flatmates apparently gave a shit about closing the curtains ever. Apparently I'm the weird one now?

I really like looking into other people's apartments. I like seeing how they decorated and what they're up to.

The person's room across the street is making me want to paint some walls for added interest.

I pass are 3 or 4 garden apartments on my walk from the train and these people never ever have their blinds shut. It's as un-private as you can get, and I would totally shut my blinds if I live there. You can see the people head to toe and see every detail of the room except the ceiling.