"More than a billion people have accounts on Facebook, but giant networks like that can actually make you miserable.
Originally shared by Al Tlön
"More than a billion people have accounts on Facebook, but giant networks like that can actually make you miserable. Instead of quitting social media entirely, look beyond the big players: A more specialized small network might be a better fit for you. Often, these niche options fill a specific need. Try a network that connects with your neighbors, puts you in touch with like-minded pet owners, leads you to new artists, or provides another service."
https://www.popsci.com/smaller-social-networks#page-8
"More than a billion people have accounts on Facebook, but giant networks like that can actually make you miserable. Instead of quitting social media entirely, look beyond the big players: A more specialized small network might be a better fit for you. Often, these niche options fill a specific need. Try a network that connects with your neighbors, puts you in touch with like-minded pet owners, leads you to new artists, or provides another service."
https://www.popsci.com/smaller-social-networks#page-8
That nextdoor site looks interesting, I wonder how popular it will get.
ReplyDeleteBill Brayman oh goodness, in this area NextDoor is full of pettiness and racial tension as well as suspicion of anyone "not from here" who walks or drives through the neighborhood. I completely caution anyone about this site to consider the good parts as helpful information for the immediate neighborhood and stay away from the negative. It's not a place people actually get to know each other and have conversations. I've given away things, bought a few things and asked questions about things like Bulk Trash pick-up.
ReplyDeletecobalt please now that you mention it, i can imagine the various communities and how they deal with tension and divisiveness.
ReplyDeleteNext Door is not social media as we know it. It's a space for people to bitch about homeless (and harmless) crazies walking down the street talking to themselves, shit getting lifted from their cars, neighbors with loud kidsk, etc. Local, local, local.
ReplyDeletePat Kight exactly. Good to know it’s the same here as where you are. In my neighborhood I hear all the nastiness of gun owners bragging that if someone they don’t know comes in their yard or to their door, they’ll be met with guns drawn. Nice.
ReplyDeletecobalt please An interesting observation on how over-permissiveness of FreezePeach tends to either suppress, or drive off, other voices.
ReplyDelete(Or, you know, we could all troll the gunnutz.)
I like NextDoor for what it is.
ReplyDeletecobalt please Nextdoor was like that for me too (Bay Area.) I spent a little time there, then a conversation blew up out of control and I ducked out. Not sure what it's like these days. Never went back.
ReplyDeleteSince NextDoor is local by nature, it doesn't really make sense to write off the whole service based on how people act in any given neighborhood. ijs
ReplyDeleteJohn Douglas Porter Unless, and this is kind of a critical point of site dynamics: it acts consistently and predictably across a large number of neighbourhoods. Which would suggest that the problem is the site-community interaction itself. Something within NextDoor's scope of influence, if not direct control.
ReplyDeleteJohn Douglas Porter but wouldn’t you agree it is unlike G+ in that it isn’t used to share links, have long conversations, share and store photos,and build collections and communities/groups within the larger site? It must be real names and you must provide proof of residence in that neighborhood in order to register.
ReplyDeletein my area Nextdoor is a mixed bag. It is useful to hear about burglaries for example.
ReplyDeleteanother use case is reporting/finding lost animals.
I don't spend much time there