Nextdoor - a private social network for your neighborhood. Anyone using this?

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http://www.idahostatesman.com/2012/04/09/2068363/a-modern-take-on-old-timey-idea.html

The platform lets neighborhoods create free, private websites — bulletin boards for posting everything from homeowner association meetings to neighborhood potlucks and even prowler warnings.

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“We created the site with the idea of bringing back a sense of community. You may know your neighbors to the left and the right, but not four houses away,” said Dabney Lawless, vice president of communications for the California-based Nextdoor.

“You have Facebook for your friends and family, Twitter for sharing information and Linked In for your career,” Lawless said. “But neighborhoods are still people’s central communities. We felt there was something missing.”

Nextdoor, funded by venture capital in the Silicon Valley, is trying to fill the gap.

Sounds like it could be a great tool for bringing a few people out from behind the closed blinds, even if just for sharing a ride to the grocery store. This is the first I've heard of it.

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1. thanks for that!

we have a few neighbors who put together an e-mail list a few years ago, but it didn't go anywhere. This is cool