For anybody looking for a taste of Nextdoor’s weirdest, silliest posts — from fireworks problems to paranoid next-doorneighbors spying on each other — Jenn Takahashi’s @BestofNextdoor Twitter account has whatever.
Best of Nextdoor reveals the wacky underbelly of the neighborhood-centric social media app, which went public last November.
Takahashi, who lives in San Francisco and has a day task running her PR firm, talked to The Associated Press about why she began the account — which isn’t associated with the business — and what she’s discovered. The discussion hasactually been modified for length and clearness.
Q: How did you get the concept for BestofNextdoor?
A: I veryfirst signedupwith Nextdoor in 2013 or 2014 when I lived in Glen Park, a incredibly peaceful area that feels more like the residentialareas than San Francisco. One day, I got a alert from my Nextdoor app and my entire life altered.
A next-doorneighbor hadactually composed an definitely scrumptious post implicating us of rearranging her yard gnomes at night and she was not delighted about it. To leading it off, the prolonged post was “signed” by every single member of the whole yard gnome household (and there were rather a coupleof members!).
This obviously didn’t hinder the yard gnome rearranger duetothefactthat she began publishing about it daily. I was consumed. This endedupbeing part of the everyday regular for both of us — she would post her allegation at the verysame time every day, and I would come house and read it every day. It endedupbeing a pointer to me to not sweat the little things.
Eventually, I moved to another area, where I discovered that the Nextdoor drama was a little more “real” than yard gnome rearrangement. Since I was yearning the levity that my Nextdoor had when offered, my household and buddies began sharing easygoing posts from their own n