XPost: alt.fan.usenet   
   From: rich@example.invalid   
      
   In comp.misc The Real Bev  wrote:   
   > On 8/17/24 12:45 PM, D wrote:   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> On Sat, 17 Aug 2024, The Real Bev wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> What bothers me is that otherwise smart people have replaced usenet   
   >>> with Facebook.  Maybe X too, but I don't read that even if I have   
   >>> an account.  How hard can it be to do all three?  The 'social   
   >>> media' make actual conversation, as opposed to post-it notes,   
   >>> difficult.  I "know" the people I've known on usenet since 1995.   
   >>> I've met some of them IRL.  FB people, unless friends of friends,   
   >>> are unknown strangers, just groups of words without names.   
   >>>   
   >>> And don't get me started about Nextdoor...   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> What is this nextdoor thing?  I have heard about it on usenet, but I   
   >> think it must be some US thing that has not yet reached europe.   
   >   
   > It's sort of like facebook, but divided into neighborhoods (literal   
   > neighborhoods, maybe 1 mile or so in diameter).  It's clunkier than   
   > facebook, but there's local stuff that makes it kind of useful --   
   > especially since the local newspaper now has ONE page of actual local   
   > news if we're lucky.   
      
   I've also heard (but never signed up) that /some/ local 'nextdoor'   
   groups are also very "group think" and attack anyone who dares post   
   something that they interpret as "outside the group think bubble".   
      
   In part I never signed on because in my area, it is one where the   
   probability of "group think nazi's" being on nextdoor and policing the   
   group is over 50%.  So I never bothered.   
      
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