Ay Caramba! Social Media strikes again!

[dreamshark]

One of my neighbors sent me an invite to Nextdoor, some sort of electronic bulletin board where neighborhood residents can post questions, announcements, and the like. Sounded like a nice idea, so sure, I signed up.

Next time I looked at my gmail account, the "Social" tab had about 100 emails in it! Turns out the default setting for this thing is "send me an individual email for every single item posted by everybody in EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD." Holy crap. Who wants that?? I changed the settings to "just my neighborhood, please," but it was still overwhelming. No political chat or anything, just an endless stream of "I put an old bookshelf out in the alley" and "Who knows a good babysitter?" and so on. Finally I realized that every day or so they send out a digest that just has subject lines/links to the latest batch of postings. I changed my settings to block all the emails except the digest. I think that will make this usable.

Anybody have experience with Nextdoor? Do you like it?

Comments

[minnehaha]

I have been trying to remember the name of NextDoor, which seems to be a competitor for e-domocracy's Minneapolis Issues mailing list (which I am on). I haven't looked at NextDoor. Is it any better than the Patch (which I gave up on)?

K.

[dreamshark]

Well, it is certainly ACTIVE. I don't think it's playing in the same space as e-democracy, which I gather is about "issues." Nextdoor is extremely mundanely local. Here's the list of New Posts from the last daily digest. That's not counting 18 replies to previous posts and 22 "Classified and Free Items."
• Van broken into
• Do Not Buy These
• Dog Groomer
• ISO help moving a couch from St. Paul to Mpls. Will pay
• Hat (of the pussy cat variety)
• Snow Shoveling Help
• Selling my house, seeking travel trailer
• Hardwood floors
• ISO glass baby food jars (need 20)
• ISO magnet building toys

[mdlbear]

I've been on nextdoor for a couple of years; it's mostly useless but if you stick with the digest it's not too spammy and occasionally has useful stuff.