Why can’t people understand the concept of Nextdoor? The concept is good, but it is never used for its intended use. It is to discuss issues in your neighborhood. Maybe you have a garage sale coming up, maybe your car got vandalized and you want to post a picture of the suspect, maybe you have a question about a neighborhood event, or want to hire someone.

No. All Nextdoor seems to be used for is like Facebook. Posts like, “to the person that cut me off 20 miles away from my neighborhood, I saw cops on the side of the road driving between these two cities does anyone know why they are there?, I saw saw a fire truck at the shopping center 10 miles away does anyone know what is going on? I killed this snake, is it deadly? And it is a poor Gardner Snake. I heard gunshots this morning and it is dove hunting season.” Ugh!

All these posts get tons of responses wondering what happened too.

I have the App for the neighborhood I live in and the one I own property in. If I ever post some of an actual question about the neighborhood such as does someone know the homeowner’s association rule on XYZ, or what is the date of this neighborhood event, I get freaking crickets. Nothing.

People are stupid and I just need to delete this app to lower my blood pressure. Rant over.

Nextdoor is like “Hotel California”. You can delete it any time you like, but you can never leave.

I signed up for Nextdoor, hoping to find a person in my area with a particular skill. No success with that, but I started seeing lots of Nextdoor email junk. I deleted the Nextdoor app, but the email junk keeps rolling in.

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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:
Nextdoor is like “Hotel California”. You can delete it any time you like, but you can never leave.

I signed up for Nextdoor, hoping to find a person in my area with a particular skill. No success with that, but started seeing lots of email junk. Deleted the Nextdoor app, but the email junk keeps rolling in.

Just fantastic. Each email I get is only the first few words of post and seem it might be relevant until I open it to see the actual uneducated post.

Yep,
I deleted it and no longer get notifications.
I was getting crap from outside my neighborhood, across town, even though those areas were not selected. While I wanted to stay informed about crime in the area, it was just too much spam and Karens griping about other neighbors.

I don't use the Nextdoor app, but I visit it occasionally on the web.

A particular thread got my attention just yesterday, ranting about a business and its touch-screen interface being a scam. I tried to add some sense to the discussion, and it was tough to resist telling the OP to just "think a little bit and stop trying to be a victim."

I guess someone else was "triggered" (haha) by the whole thing, for the entire discussion vanished this afternoon.

As Normin said, Nextdoor's original intent is good but it seems to have turned into an all-purpose venue for whining.

Somebody in our neighborhood stuck fliers in/on all the mailboxes, encouraging everybody to join the neighborhood NextDoor group. I did a little research on NextDoor. ISTR what I read about their privacy policies was not good? Then I thought "Neighbors in a social media setting: What could possibly go wrong?" and decided I could do without it all.

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Originally posted by ensigmatic:
"Neighbors in a social media setting: What could possibly go wrong?"

I signed up with a fake name.

Honestly all of social media makes me sick. I have to have fake accounts on Facebook, Instagram, SnapChat, CashApp, etc for investigations and I am blown away by what people post, but on those I am not as surprised as I am a thug on there..lol. Nextdoor is the only social media I have under my first name with my last name blocked, but I am thinking of getting rid of it. I can’t believe what people post on any platform.

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Originally posted by vthoky:

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Originally posted by ensigmatic:
"Neighbors in a social media setting: What could possibly go wrong?"

I signed up with a fake name.

Yeah I am shocked at some of the terrible comments people make at each other on Nextdoor with their name and neighborhood listed.

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Originally posted by vthoky:

I signed up with a fake name.

The moderators for the local NextDoor group are certified Karens. They did not like me signing up as "Lamont Cranston" and they disabled my access.

I thought about this for a bit, then I mailed a letter to Lamont Cranston at my address. When I received it in the mailbox, I scanned the envelope, showing name, address, and postmark, as "proof" that it was legitimate and emailed the scan to the moderator, who then un-froze my account.

I signed up for Nextdoor during the pandemic around April-May of 2020 and made it two weeks then deleted that shit and never looked back.

To paraphrase Obi Wan Kenobi about that platform:

“You will never find a more wretched hive of Karen scum and asshole busybody neighbor villainy.”

It is dominated by the usual keyboard idiots that the Intergoogle gives full access to. I lasted a week on it.

I hardly ever open the post on next door... did one this morning posted yesterday where someone was ranting about pile of dog shit in there yard...
there were already 119 replies.... geez....

NextDoor is awful. Its full of mouth breathers and window lickers.

I live in a formerly rural area that drastically changed in 2016 when they opened the Grand Parkway which is the 3rd highway loop around Houston. I'm interested if something relevant (crime, new restaurant, developer trying to add a low income housing section, etc) is going on in my neighborhood, and the 3 neighborhoods connected to mine. I selected those 4 neighborhoods for e-mail notification. IDGAF what happens elsewhere as there it'd be information overload.

Instead, I was getting irrelevant shit 15 or 20 miles away in another county which means there is 0.5 to 1.0 million people between me and it. Turns out the OP can choose how wide the audience is so the narcissists are blasting local only posts (e.g. kids play ding dong ditch 'em) to a mass audience to get feed their social media dopamine addiction.

Tried to nuke it but NextDoor are cockroaches that refuse to be removed from my life.

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Originally posted by V-Tail:

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Originally posted by vthoky:

I signed up with a fake name.

The moderators for the local NextDoor group are certified Karens. They did not like me signing up as "Lamont Cranston" and they disabled my access

I signed up as Walter Kovacs, and have gotten away so far.

Lately, there have been many digital panhandlers with their tales of woe, asking for help.

I whisper, "No".

Useless. I have more important and better things to do than interact with questionable people.

And the “local area” that I’m supposed to be in encompasses fifty to seventy five miles. Why do I care what happens in a neighborhood two counties away?

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Originally posted by PASig:

“You will never find a more wretched hive of Karen scum and asshole busybody neighbor villainy.”

I have never had Nextdoor, but a buddy uses it, and from what he says, this is exactly correct. I don't know why he looks at it, as that is not usually his nature. Maybe it is a sort of voyeurism.

similar story,

signed up years ago to keep an eye on any crime in the neighborhood my shop is in,

problem here is the area is a bit bigger than it should be, so I had to sift thru 30 posts to see if anyone even posted in my immediate area,

and like mentioned, all karens, busy bodies and basically stupid shit,


I live 4 miles from my shop, and we have a neighborhood Facebook page, which is actually worthy of being a member of,

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Originally posted by V-Tail:
When I received it in the mailbox, I scanned the envelope, showing name, address, and postmark, as "proof" that it was legitimate and emailed the scan to the moderator, who then un-froze my account.

I do like the way you work, sir.

Even worse here in a two-college town - all the reasons they are pitiful and asking for free shit, oh, and by the way, they don’t have a car either, so can you deliver it to them…