Nextdoor.com

Anyone else's neighborhood served by one of those Nextdoor.com message boards? Ours is and I figured I'd sign up. To be honest, I expected a lot of bitching--I know, such the optimist. Instead it's a lot of neighbors helping neighbors--recommendation for plumbers, tree trimmers, etc.

We also have a lot of animal sightings.

"Anyone see the bear?"

"I saw the bear!"

"I got photos!!"

"A fox! We have a fox in the neighborhood."

"I got a photo of the fox!"

Now they're tracking gopher tortoises. Guess there's an app to help them do that.

I expect it devolves into a bunch of housewives hooking up with the pool boy or single dads in the neighborhood while their husbands go off to work if it has any sort of private message option.

Sounds like everything I try to avoid on the book of faces now. No thanks...

We have it in our neighborhood as well, and for the most part the traffic is the same - recommendations for house painters or plumbers, lost cats, recommendations for restaurants, etc. The Minneapolis PD recently connected up with it as well so they can send out alerts, if there's been a rash of burglaries or that sort of thing.

You can set how often you get updates. At first I was getting multiple emails per day, but it can be adjusted to send out a once a day summary, a once a week summary, or you can turn off notifications altogether (but of course then you have to go to the website and log in to view updates.)

We have it for our city. Our mayor is even active on it. There is some bickering but for the most part things are civil. It actually helps. After a crime wave hit the city a bunch of active members roasted the mayor & local PD for not doing anything. Suddenly the police were on active foot patrols and several perps were caught.

Lots of missing cats & dogs though.

My community has it and I’ve had an account for about a year.

Mostly wild animal sightings, suspicious activity, and requests for contracted services.

Not super exciting but worth the modest effort required to stay engaged.

Many of the posters are dingbats so the message board reads a lot like what you’d expect if Aunt Bee got ahold of your iPad.

I’m often tempted to mess with people but as they say, don’t E36 M3 where you eat.

Case in point…yesterday, a passionate plea for a "super aggressive" female divorce attorney was made. A recommendation came back but it was for a male and the requester got irate and reiterated that she was only interested in a female attorney.

I was so tempted to post “gee, maybe if you weren’t such a man hater, you’d still have a husband”

We have it. It's 60% yard sale ads, 20% service recommendations, 15% lost pets, and 5% gibberish.

We have one as well. Mostly it is people giving recommendations for services, lost animals, or potential crime spotting. I've posted a few times and had good response from my questions. It's a good way to meet neighbors on other surrounding streets that you might not otherwise run across.

Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote: I expect it devolves into a bunch of housewives hooking up with the pool boy or single dads in the neighborhood while their husbands go off to work if it has any sort of private message option.

So like Tinder for neighbours. Unfortunately, I could see that working

G_Body_Man wrote:

Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote: I expect it devolves into a bunch of housewives hooking up with the pool boy or single dads in the neighborhood while their husbands go off to work if it has any sort of private message option.

So like Tinder for neighbours. Unfortunately, I could see that working

I can hope.

What is this neighborhood concept? Are you living close enough to other people that you can't fire high powered rifles in your back yard?

bravenrace wrote: Sounds like everything I try to avoid on the book of faces now. No thanks...

Yup this

e46potenza wrote:

bravenrace wrote: Sounds like everything I try to avoid on the book of faces now. No thanks...

Yup this

Yeah, I've unfollowed everyone except close relatives/friends and all the musicians/bands/etc. that I actually give a crap about.

I've not heard of this before and have no idea if there an active section for my neighborhood. I chose to not provide them my email address so I couldn't even find out.

In reply to T.J.:

That too. I was curious enough to check, but not to give them my email.

petegossett wrote: In reply to T.J.: That too. I was curious enough to check, but not to give them my email.

+1

yeah, I dont want to sign up with my email without being able to see what they offer first.

T.J. wrote: I've not heard of this before and have no idea if there an active section for my neighborhood. I chose to not provide them my email address so I couldn't even find out.

because creating a throw-away account is so difficult? 30 seconds of your day?