I believe you’ve got it all wrong...
You see, Laz Baby: you’re a chick magnet. You drive them nuts - especially the wrinkled Karens. So the only way to protect themselves from all the weird vibes you put out is to call you names, then hide themselves out of shame.
What power you have!
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I am reading all this, have been reading Nextdoor but not posted on it. This is eye opening and I’m turning off their notifications and getting out of it.
I need this like a hole in the head.
Sorry you have a bad Neighborhood, not the experience here.
Same exact thing happened to me. No loss other than a little time.
Ditto for FaceBook with their lost/found pages.
I have a possible solution for the neighbor problem thing. It’s kinda old school. Go out and meet your neighbors. Exchange phone numbers. Then when you see a stray dog or cat, or something that seems out of place, you can call one or some of the neighbors.
It’s one of the things I love about my little town. People know each other. We talk with each other, fairly regularly, though not every day. We also watch out for each other.
Forget the social media apps. The old school way works just fine. At least it does for me, and for now.
It’s social media, ergo it’s crap.
It took some walking around outside, but all my neighbors know me personally. Most are much older folks, so they don’t do social media. Many don’t have cell phones or computers! They believe in eye contact.
Have a regular yard event of some sort, a get-together, a block party.
No good comes of “non-anomymity” online.
We joined briefly and departed for the same reasons. What a bunch of Karens and borderline psychopaths.
Wandering into an insane asylum is at your own risk.
Thanks for submitting yourself to the dangers.
Haha similar experience... I don’t visit often. One memorable entry was posted by a local lady who was worried about a goat she had sold a few days before and kind of wanted it back. She was explaining the sale and apparently two Mexicans pulled up in a pickup truck gave her the asking price, rooed it up, threw it in the back of the truck and drove off. Her afterthought of the exchange worried her so she posted.
The comments were wonderful.
I tried to join a neighborhood group where I had a rental house. I immediately got a message from a neighborhood Karen rhetorically asking, “You don’t live here, do you?” I decided that me not joining would be better for everybody.
I appreciate being informed on sites to avoid. Thanks Laz, cause being intolerant is a way of life for me.
Well, darn, now I have to check it out.
I did get multiple invites to sign up for NextDoor. Some neighbor apparently told NextDoor to invite me to sign up, when first getting into the neighborhood.
I didn’t like the idea of such a “clan” approach. It felt like I would be joining a “family” like that of “Rosemary’s Baby.”
Nextdoor is the most reliably hilarious site on the intarwebz, in my experience.
But you can’t come right out and poke the bear, as the cat lady Karen “moderators” will be quick with the ban hammer.
It never ceases to be a source of mirth and liberal stupidity!
I go on Nextdoor every time they issue a political screed (usually against a proposed new apartment complex, industrial business, retail business, etc) and call them all NIMBY idiots living in an echo chamber that want to destroy our community by preventing any growth, or anything nice or new from coming to our neighborhood. I then usually talk about how if we dont create new jobs, there will be nobody to buy their house when they want to sell.
Yah, just like Slashdot. They lie about supporting free speech, but let their own members censor you if you disagree with a clique’s position.
I would not mind having someone block me — keep from seeing my posts. Find, that is like walking away from someone in the common square. But, muzzling someone. Nope.
I’ve received several invitations to re-join the local Nextdoor. Each time I go in and take a peek at what they have to say about WuhanFlu, masks, etc. Their official position is that you are not allowed to criticize CDC/WHO policy. So, I repeat my complaint about their channeling Stalin and tell them to bugger off.
Women sit around on social media and pass judgement re: stupid and irrelevant crap.
If only we could channel that level of social pressure into productive and self preservative ways.
I don’t remember what the offense was the got me banned but I had a lot of fun once when some sheep from a HOA area posted to ask what color she was allowed to paint her door.
I replied “This is America, paint it whatever color you want.”
Hilarity ensued among the Karen class.
I agree with you. I stop using it a few years ago.