Is it creepy to monitor my family's web activity?

So I monitor the internet logs on my family's router. My parents know I do this. I do it to make sure that my younger siblings aren't looking at pornography or on their electronics late at night. One of my younger sisters, who is 16, found out I do this and told me it's creepy and stalker-ish. Is it?

Edit: I generally don't look at logs regarding my 16 year old sister, I am more concerned with my 8 year old brother and 12 old sister. Also, I can't see WHAT they're doing, only what website they're on.
Also, I don't address to them anything about their internet activities, I tell my parents and they deal with it.

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  • Tealights

    It's either two things.

    1. Your protective-older-brother (or sister, idk) image is just a facade for your morbid, yet slightly perverse curiosity for your siblings, probably mostly the 16 year old sister more so than anyone else.

    2. You're becoming extremely controlling of others, because you have no control over what's happening to your personal life. It could be anything that involves a drastic change (graduation, college, job, failing, wanting a girlfriend/boyfriend, etc). So instead of dealing with it and going through the motions, you rather take it out on others around you.

    I think it's mostly 1, with a hint of 2; because you are at that graduating, beginning-college-soon, and curious about sex age.

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  • Handyman

    Who monitors your browsing, and is it good?

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  • charli.m

    It's creepy. It's not your place.

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  • Boojum

    Since you say your eldest sibling "found out about this", it sounds like you haven't mentioned what you're doing before.

    Do you listen in on their phone conversations and follow them around to eavesdrop on what they talk about with their friends? Maybe you have their rooms bugged, and GPS trackers hidden in their backpacks as well?

    I'm with your sister: it's creepy and stalkerish.

    Tealights is also right: it's controlling and suggests an unhealthy, obsessive interest in the life of your siblings, particularly your sister.

    Unless your parents are totally indifferent to the well-being of you and your siblings, it's really none of your damned business what your siblings are doing on the internet. You're a brother, not a parent. Your parents should be the ones discussing with your younger siblings all the very real issues relating to the internet and social media. If you feel you have a better handle on those issues then your parents, then they should bring you in as a consultant during those family talks. They should not be making you the family Net Nanny.

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  • dirtybirdy

    Creepy as fuck. While your intentions may be good, eww. My little brother recently told me that my older brother is doing the same thing. Not because he needs to, just because he can, as an IT guy... it's disturbing to say the least. If it was happening to me, I'd rip off some balls. I dont do shady shit, but I expect my privacy to be respected.

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  • SammyStarts

    Its extremely creepy and overprotective. What if they dont want you knowing about something?

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    • SammyStarts

      Also they are 16 they are aloud to look at porn if they wish. They aren't a child.

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  • Kevinevan

    Yeah you sound creepy as fuck.

    Snitches get stitches brah.

    Keep you side of the street clean and let your parents raise your siblings. I dare say you have a twig or two that has fallen from your tree so just look after yourself.

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  • CreamPuffs

    It's very creepy.

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  • Calena

    I agree with your sister. Ask yourself first, would you be comfortable with someone monitoring your web activities?

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  • Pumpurrnickel

    I would say it is creepy. If a 16-year-old is a younger sibling, then how old are the others? They're practically adults, it's ridiculous to monitor if they watch porn and then scold them if they do.

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    • nohbody

      I'm the oldest at 18. She is the second oldest at 16. The others are 8 and 13

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      • Pumpurrnickel

        I don't know man. If that happened to me I would feel that my privacy is violated.

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  • dak

    Yes it is.either ur parents aren't doing good parenting they shud seat down with the younger siblings n let them know wrong and right and consequences for their actions not being controlling u wont control them their whole lives

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  • I find creepy in general, and dangerously overprotective. How would you feel if your parents did this to you?

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  • chunst

    As long as you're not jackin' off while you're doing it, you should be fine.

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  • GeekZ

    M8 when I was your age I used to help monitor a whole school

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  • JonathanOo

    Yes but you should be upfront with them. No need to always Monitor them unless they are into bad sh:^. If not they can browse whatever they want as long as it's safe

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    • nohbody

      I don't constantly monitor them, I have it set up so I get a notification if someone uses our internet late at night, or if there is strange activity. I originally set it up to see if our neighbors were stealing our internet.

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  • TerriAngel

    I won't call you a nazi.
    But, you suck.
    Mind your own fucking business.
    As for porn, fuck you.
    Porn is awesome.
    If I was one of your unfortunate siblings I'd just get it at a friend's house.
    You aren't accomplishing shit.
    Except alienating your own family.

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  • yesnomaybeso

    How about teaching them that some websites are bad?

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  • hauntedeasteregg

    They might not like it. My husband follows my son evan around everywhere and complains about him not doing anything right.

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  • RoseIsabella

    How do your parents feel about all of this?

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    • nohbody

      My parents, especially my mother, are glad I do it. My one sister, who is 13, is very irresponsible, so they're glad I'm making sure she isn't doing anything she shouldn't. And my 8 year old brother is 8, I doubt anyone can blame me for watching what he's doing.

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      • RoseIsabella

        Well, then I'm not mad at ya. However, since you've taken it upon yourself to monitor your family's Internet usage to make sure your younger siblings aren't staying up late at to look at pornography, I certainly hope that you aren't looking at that garbage either. If you're going to act like the policeman in your family you need to be beyond reproach. If you look at pornography yourself then you would be a hypocrite. Don't be a hypocrite, don't you look at porn either.

        Porn is bad, m'kay.

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  • Couman

    Yes it is.

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