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I own one Ring camera in addition to many other types of cameras so I have the Ring app. I have Nextdoor because once in a blue moon it comes in handy for something it is actually meant for. However, it seems 75% of all the freaking posts are, “I hear a helicopter, I hear sirens, I saw a police car with lights on, I saw a fire truck, etc and then they ask “Anyone know what is going on?”

Unless it is affecting you or your street, who the hell cares? On Ring someone just literally posted, “I can hear sirens in the area, can anyone else hear them?” I couldn’t help but to reply that if she can hear the sirens, then I am sure other people can too. Of course the follow-up response from her was, “Anyone know what is going on?”

People are just too damn nosey. That is why there are huge traffic jams just because there are flashing lights from whatever on the side of the road and the road isn’t blocked at all. It is all the rubberneckers looking to see what it is or taking a picture to post to ask if anyone knows what happened.

Good grief!




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Posts: 9044 | Location: The Lone Star State | Registered: July 07, 2008Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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I have had numerous invites to join the local group since we moved here in July 23’. It’s a one stoplight town I don’t give a shit about somebody dog barking or any other petty shit they complain about.


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If you can believe it, the local Nextdoor is worse than Facebook for weird and petty nonsense.


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Nextdoor is utter shit. I lasted about 3 months then never went back.

There’s some 10% usefulness but the 90% Karens, nosey neighbors and just plain jerkoff people with too much time on their hands cancels that out.


 
Posts: 35500 | Location: Pennsylvania | Registered: November 12, 2007Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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On the Ring, go into the app and disable all that neighbor crap. I get the same shit here. “Oh my, help, I just saw a Coyote! It’s going to eat your baby or your dog!” Karens have nothing better to do. The random shit that comes through on that app before I disabled all that shit was just insane. Animal sightings, porch pirates, sirens, or someone complaining about some loud crash. Like most people I’ve got too much shit to do than worry about this simpleton bullshit.



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Originally posted by StorminNormin:

I have Nextdoor because once in a blue moon it comes in handy for something it is actually meant for. However, it seems 75% of all the freaking posts are, “I hear a helicopter, I hear sirens, I saw a police car with lights on, I saw a fire truck, etc and then they ask “Anyone know what is going on?”
You could reply to them:

Police cars with sirens and lights -- "Captain wants his coffee and donuts, RIGHT NOW!"

Or tell them that it's a SWAT team serving a no-knock warrant on a gang of miscreants that have been removing mattress tags.

Somebody is being busted for Mopery On The High Seas.

Use your imagination.



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Posts: 31916 | Location: Central Florida, Orlando area | Registered: January 03, 2010Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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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 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 take repeated efforts to get out of your life.



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Posts: 24191 | Location: Northern Suburbs of Houston | Registered: November 14, 2005Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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NextDoor is awful. Its full of mouth breathers and window lickers.


And whiners.




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Our Nextdoor also has a large contingent of beggars…
 
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NextDoor is awful. Its full of mouth breathers and window lickers.


And whiners.


Window Lickers literally made me laugh my ass off! I had never heard that but will now use it!




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Our Nextdoor also has a large contingent of beggars…


Oh absolutely! I forgot to add that in. People wanting rent paid for, cash, you name it!




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


I will always be in awe of their stupidity. Life is a one way trip. Nobody gets out of this alive. Instead these people just sit on their ass, and do nothing, their entire lives. Phones, social media, watching ads on television. When the most exciting thing you do all week is go sit your fat ass down at some restaurant to stuff your face..well that’s how you get NextDoor people. They have nothing going on, at all, in their own life. So they camp on sites/apps like that actively looking for anything they can fester about. Life is just passing them by. What they need to do is take their fat asses to a gym, go for a run, go ride a bike, get some exercise. And get off the internet. Then try to find some hobby or passion in your life and do that. Living in or next to a major city via suburb, oh my, they can have all this shit. I’m running for the hills and rural as soon as I can.

Last year I had a roadrunner keep bothering me. My storm door has window tint on the inside of it so I can see out but you can’t see in. The roadrunner found this oh so fascinating and once a day would start pecking at the glass with its’ beak. I understand why, it’s almost like a mirror to the bird, seeing itself in the glass reflection. Inside the house you hear this bang BANG, BANG! And it started to really piss me off. I’d open both doors, and chase it off. One time I squirted it with a water bottle, another time I turned the zone on the sprinklers and chased it right into the sprinklers. The Karen right across the street is a NextDoor gal. Camps on that thing. Karen and her husband, very large humans btw, leave their front door open all the time. Just the storm door closed and they must spend hours a day staring out the door, both retired. Just watching the street, fun times. Well the last time that fucking roadrunner started pecking against my door I grabbed an empty cardboard box from Amazon. Real small box, not much bigger than a couple packs of Marlboros. I open up the door, chase it through the yard and throw the empty box at it. I mean if that box hit that damn bird square it wouldn’t have done jack shit. You know how accurate you can be throwing a little empty box? The opposite of fucking Greg Maddox. The box lands a good 1-2 feet from that bird. Then I hear Karen yelling my name and screaming “Don’t you hurt that bird!” I replied back I didn’t even touch it, just chasing it off as she stormed back inside after bitching me out. Then I texted her bitch husband and told him to get his wife in line. Ain’t getting bitched out ON MY PROPERTY by her. I explained to him if I wanted to hurt that bird I’ve got a lot of guns to do it with, got damn box was empty, and I’m just trying to get the bird to stop pecking at my door. It’s loud, and I’m on work calls all day where I have to speak. He replied back that he didn’t want to get in the middle of it. I said fine, don’t contact me for anything ever again then. And don’t get in the middle of me chasing a bird, or animal off my property, it’s my got damn business not Karen. I called her a Karen too. Big Grin They both waddle when they walk they are so obese. His favorite hobby and pastime is eating. They do nothing else.



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Posts: 13361 | Location: Down South | Registered: January 16, 2010Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Similar questions on my Facebook neighborhood group.

"Did anyone see the dog walking on my driveway at midnight?"

"Can anyone on the retention pond identify the animal walking/running there at 10:18 this morning?"

"Did anyone feel the earthquake?"

"Watch out for car break-ins...look at the Ring data from three miles away!"

"Look at the rainbow!"

"Is your internet out this morning?"

"Please stop feeding the squirrels peanuts. They are burying the shells in my garden."

"Please keep your cats off my property. They wake me up at 3 am."

I think these questions show that people really do NOT want to be in a neighborhood, people are fearful of "dragons" and that people lack the ability to politely assert our needs.


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Posts: 5370 | Location: Commonwealth of Virginia | Registered: January 15, 2007Reply With QuoteReport This Post
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Originally posted by MelissaDallas:
Our Nextdoor also has a large contingent of beggars…


Oh absolutely! I forgot to add that in. People wanting rent paid for, cash, you name it!


The worst. “Oh, I’m sick, can someone go buy me food?” They’re not even bothering with the usual elaborate bullshit story to go along with the ask. Sad part is lonely old people want to “help” - talk about making yourself a target.

And then the person who wants to call them out on it gets attacked online.


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