How familiar are you with your neighbors? For the most part, American neighborhoods operate as tight-knit communities. The San Francisco company, Nextdoor, has launched a social networking site for neighborhoods to create private, online communities. "We didn't see a social network for what we believe is one of the most meaningful communities of all," said Nirav Tolia, the chief executive and co-founder of Nextdoor. The site has several rules that are crucial to making these communities work. Anyone who joins a network must live in that neighborhood. The site can send a postcard with a code on it that the residence can enter on Nextdoor's site. All members must sign in using their real names. Search engines like Google won't have access to any information on the network. Nextdoor is designed to encourage stronger relationships between people who can benefit from one another, but often don't know each other.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/26/there-posts-the-neighborhood/?ref=socialnetworking
Very interesting idea. I think this is probably the future of social networks, more intimate and less volume of people on the network. Also i think that security provided by not allowing google to access the community's information will promote a lot more people to enter into sharing those things that make a neighbor a close friend! Great Blog!
ReplyDeleteI love this idea! Sounds like it could be very useful for large neighborhoods and could help bring light to issues such as crime and littering or even alerting everyone of crime or strings of burglary. I would be cautious though to inform my neighbors of an upcoming vacation though... that could get very interesting...
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