Who uses the "Next Door" app? What a source of endless (and often pathetic) humor

[NRaleighLiberal]

We moved to a new area 6 months ago and are on the Next Door app, mostly to sell or donate things and get recommendations for local services.

But - wow - COVID has turned it into a battleground between the mask folks and the "open it all back up" crowd, between those with empathy and those whose sole focus is themselves.

And then there is the grammar and spelling of the trumpers. Today someone suggested that people not be "Karens". What a shitshow of a thread that has created.

My wife advises me to step away from the keyboard - be entertained, but don't inflame. But...it is so tempting to jump into the fray and drive some of these assholes crazy! (crazier, more accurately)

then of course there are the endless ads - it went from a good idea to a typically ad filled place for people to fight.

[CincyDem]

1. Sounds like a fun neighborhood. All I see on NextDoor is "Did anyone hear that boom?" lol

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. I think because we have a dug-in red element - some families for a LONG time -

and an imported, migrating in blue element - like us! - farmers, highly educated, way to wealthy, way too poor, a real mix, things can flame up in a hurry.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

22. Yup. Got one of those the other day,

and this morning there was "What was that loud humming noise?"

[yellowdogintexas]

39. is your internet or cable out

that is a big one. I presume they are using the phone to type that, if the internet is out. I would no more put it on my phone than I would fly to the moon. I think my phone might explode.

My sisters in a photo sharing frenzy of their grandkids are bad enough

[TheBlackAdder]

40. Yeah, mostly contractors and fearmongering to install Ring cameras.

[bamagal62]

41. CincyDem, my Nextdoor is usually

“We’re those gunshots? I think I heard 3 in a row.”
That is usually followed up with, “No, those were fireworks.”

[TreasonousBastard]

2. Around here it's pretty boring. No politics at all so far-- more stuff about plumbers.

[ProfessorGAC]

30. Same Here

Lost dogs, small engine repair questions, a little gardening, & the like.
Haven't seen anything controversial. But, I only hit it once a month or so.

[yellowdogintexas]

38. our moderators are really strict about political or divisive posting

if a thread becomes divisive, it is locked.
The limit on political is encouragement to register to vote, check your voter registration, vote, explain our new system, and remind everyone of upcoming elections.

That is it.

ALso if folks get too snarky the post will be closed.

I also went into settings and now I only get one post a week except for private messages.

Lost pets, strange folks in yards, door to door folks, telephone and internet scams, found pets, all sorts of free stuff, yard sales, items for sale not in a yard sale, if you want it,it's in my yard come get it, restaurant and business questions and recommendations.

The best ones are the postings about a family suffering a severe setback: fire, injuries, illness, etc. The folks on my network really get going on that stuff.

[maxsolomon]

3. I quit after a week a couple years ago.

So much policing and whining, I found no humor in it.

[NRaleighLiberal]

6. yep. lots of people that want to tell one exactly what to do and how to live, for sure

[Ohiogal]

5. I am on my local Neighbors website

I have an account, but I don’t post, I just read

You wonder how any of them passed 3rd grade spelling and grammar

[NRaleighLiberal]

7. Do we know that they did????

[Ohiogal]

14. And then there are the whiners.

I just now checked mine.... there have been several posts lately from people complaining that deer are eating their shrubbery so why don’t we have a county wide deer culling program.

[zipplewrath]

8. Depends upon your neighborhood

You can have some control over what neighborhoods you "follow". I kept mine fairly narrow and other than when we had a local road issue, it's generally boring. Lots of lost pet posts, and the occasional petty crime notification, other than that it's a lot of craigs list kinda stuff looking for mowers, sitters, and other what not.

[cwydro]

9. Yikes.

Sorry to hear that about your new hood.

Mine is pretty laid back, and people mind their own business. We all know each others' names and talk over fences, but otherwise, no problems.

[Codeine]

10. Angry Boomer Central.

It’s funny at first, but grows tedious very rapidly.

[SharonClark]

11. Politics posts are discouraged on my ND neighborhood

but a few pro-BLM posts snuck in. Right now it’s mostly about urban chicken and illegal fireworks complaints.

[KT2000]

12. Everything political is deleted

on ours. My neighbor who is a PAC made a post for the importance of wearing masks and that was deleted. Lots of trumpers on our Nextdoor.

[sweetloukillbot]

13. Mine is filled with "Did you see that black man riding a bike?" I think he's casing the neighborhood

A lot of suburban racist paranoia.

If you believe it, my sleepy neighborhood is a hotbed of crime that is only stopped by vigilant neighbors and their Ring video.

And complaints about shitty wifi and people not putting their trash cans out the right way.

[cwydro]

15. Dayum, where do you live? No black neighbors?

A black man rides his bike by my house every day on his way to play golf.

He lives up the street from me, and since I'm always in my yard, he usually stops to pass the time of day with me.

[sweetloukillbot]

17. Suburban Phoenix

It was a primarily white neighborhood when I was growing up, the demographics have been changing over the past 20 years. Now it's pretty mixed. But the old white people who haven't moved further out into the suburbs are worried about all the blacks and Mexicans moving in.
The amount of racism I see on NextDoor is staggering.

[cwydro]

36. Ive never looked into that app.

I reckon I won't.

Thanks for the warning.

[sweetloukillbot]

42. Best of Nextdoor on Twitter is great for a laugh

And there are some things it's good for - lost pets mostly.
But generally it's a pit filled with scared, racist gossips.

[LeftInTX]

20. My nextdoor has those posts and we do have black people

I hate that app.

If a white person does it, it isn't suspicious, if a black person is doing it, it is suspicious. (Like door to door sales)

They did sent out a formal email after George Floyd saying there is "No tolerance for racism"...Since then, I've seen much less of those kind of posts.


Now it's mostly about masks.

[sweetloukillbot]

25. In a surprising move...

There was a post about "People with the China Flu at Costco!!!!!!" in mine.

It actually was taken down.

[onecaliberal]

16. I recently deleted the AP after discovering my neighbors are fascists.

[leftyladyfrommo]

18. We do in our neighborhood. It's a good way to let

people know what crimes are being committed abd where.

It is also a great way to find your dog if it got out.

[happybird]

19. Ours is pretty quiet

It’s mostly people talking about missing dogs and cats, or asking for opinions on good neighborhoods and schools.

We have only used it once to offer free horse manure to anyone who wanted to come and haul some away. The shit pile is now half gone! Yay!

[LeftInTX]

21. Everyone on Nextdoor is a Karen

[SharonClark]

26. Are you a Karen?

[LeftInTX]

28. LOL - I mostly browse it

Everyone is in everyone's business

I bought a few things, but it is mostly people bitching about this and that.

[SoCalNative]

35. People don't actually talk to their neighbirs anymore

they just talk at them on Nextdoor

[Hortensis]

23. We have two NextDoor neighborhoods, and they're both

interesting mainly as occasional odd notes regarding our friends and mostly faint glimpses into the lives of people we don't know and didn't know existed. Someone was looking for her lost cat, next day she's also hoping to find the owner of two different cats who showed up instead. In quiet rural areas that passes for entertainment.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

24. Mine hasn't been too bad, even after the George Floyd killing,

which was in the neighborhood next to mine and one I follow. There was some initial paranoia about cars without license plates but I didn't see a lot of really serious craziness - mostly just support and requests for food shelf donations, etc. I don't follow it when it gets flamey. It has been a useful way keep track of what the neighborhood association and the city are up to, to get rid of stuff I didn't want, and to keep track of the coyotes and wild turkeys; and I was able to acquire a pretty good piano for free if I paid for moving.

[misanthrope]

27. Those apps/platforms are a quick example

of why home owners associations are so execrable. From what I've seen and glimpsed, they're mostly pettiness, envy, paranoia and prejudice.

[spinbaby]

29. Ours is pretty mild

Lost pets, loud motorcycle, tree removal, low water pressure, Fox sighted, etc.

Our local Facebook page, on the other, is a a festival of illiterates trying to “prove” face masks are dangerous and COVID doesn’t exist.

A few choice quotes from Facebook world:

“My family n I are mask free and not afraid of the over hyped flue lol”

“We need to get back out into the world and build up our immune systems again!!!”

“Anyone that knows simple biology knows you shouldn’t inhale the toxins you just exhaled.”

“And if they do forced vaccine injecttions they will give it to those who have had survived covid and it would kill him.”

[SharonAnn]

31. I started our Nextdoor site in 2012 and grew it to 7,000 members. It's very useful to all of us.

We have 6 moderators and actively monitor the site. People learn, as they use it, what the Guidelines are and we have few real problems. Any time Nextdoor is down (which is rarely) we start getting phone calls because so many people use it.

Regarding Covid-19, you can just Report the posts. Let the Leads deal with it. If there's a lot of that going on, they can ban it from the Main Newsfeed and post in a Group.

[mia]

32. My NextDoor neighbors get into political discussions - often they're informative.

The latest discussion about masks....

M. E. "Wear A Mask! It’s not a political statement, it’s a health issue. If you are outside and breathing, please wear a mask. Thank you." 21 hr ago 69 Comments

A. B. "You’re right, although people in the Gables do not care. I do wear a mask every time I go out of house, the way it should be." 18 hr ago

R. W. "If you think people in Coral Gables don't care, try going a little farther North. We visited a friend in Vero Beach a couple weeks ago after she had surgery. No one, and I mean absolutely no one wore a mask. They looked at us like we were freaks. Very sad and that's exactly why the number of cases of the Carona Virus are increasing throughout the state of Florida." 18 hr ago

N. C. "Deaths by day have been plunging since April."
https://reason.com/2020/06/22/daily-covid-19-deaths-have-fallen-dramatically-since-april/

L. S. It’s not all about death. Covid can cause long-term (or even lifetime) coronary, pulmonary, kidney and even neurological damage. And there’s no way to predict how your body will react. Suffering from these afflictions is also medically expensive. And the cases in Florida haven’t plateaued or dropped. Edited 7 hr ago

N. C. to L.S. "that’s based on complete speculation and media sensationalism. Media also pretends we are having a Covid surge based on new cases despite deaths and hospitalizations dropping. There’s a reason there are new cases and reputable doctors have explained its due to more testing yet the media and city officials refuse to acknowledge science and reasoning. They want this hysteria to continue."
5 hr ago

S.W. "Pretends??? Because of more testing? Do you think people wake up and say, "oh let me go have a foot long swab shoved up my nose today, I've nothing else to do!" People get tested because they are either sick, or are concerned they have been exposed. Do you really think less testing means less covid?? If I don;'t take my blood pressure it won't be high? If I don't weight, I won't have gained 10 pounds? I'm going to 'pretend' you are not so misinformed. "1 hr ago

N.C. to Y.A. "out of science and logic. I’m the only one sharing data and peer reviewed studies"
54 min ago

Y.A. to N. C. "You have linked only two articles (which are not considered peer reviewed studies), a chart with no source and a 2015 NIH study about cloth masks during the Ebola epidemic that has not yet been revised. Attached a link to a more recent study since you seem to be a bit behind on current data " https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7191274/
Edited 29 min ago

G. H. to N.C. "Your liberty stops when it infringes on mine. I’ll fight for your right to waive your arms until you hit me in the face. Then you’ve trounced on my rights."
3 min ago

[LisaL]

33. Mine is totally fine and has lots of useful information on it.

[underpants]

34. My boss lives in the city and told me all the gossip and funny stuff on it

I got it but since I live in the burbs it’s all about renting power washers and pet day care.

[NurseJackie]

37. "it went from a good idea to a typically ad filled place for people to fight. "

Kinda like "Discussionist".

[lark]

43. We use Nextdoor to find owners of stray dogs & cats.

It's useful for that.

[marlakay]

44. I am on it found all my guys who fix things

On it plus more. I even found cloth masks homemade and bought one from lady not far away.

You just have to stay away from politics, on mine if it gets too heated they delete the thread so someone is moderating it.

[Phentex]

45. The focus changed from dog poop bags to

people looking for certain items like Lysol or wipes. There's the occasional person who tries to make something political out of something totally unrelated but those are few.

I do think more people are posting since they have to be home now.

[Raine]

46. On mine they are just begging pleading to get whoever is shooting off fireworks to stop. nt