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Not mine, but my wife signed up for Nextdoor several years ago. They send a postcard verification of address like Google Maps does for businesses. She found ou
by exclusiv 9y ago
Not mine, but my wife signed up for Nextdoor several years ago. They send a postcard verification of address like Google Maps does for businesses.
She found out that all of our neighbors got a postcard inviting them to Nextdoor and it said something like "[So and So] just joined Nextdoor and invites you to join!"
She never opted into this knowingly but I'm assuming it was in the terms somewhere. I thought it was brilliant for acquisition; maybe one of the best strategies I've seen.
- bbcbasic 9y agoI think the users privacy should count for something. This is a betrayal in my book.
- exclusiv 9y agoIt was probably somewhere in the terms. Not ideal, but at the same time - the product IS a social network for the neighborhood, so the user gets value from having their neighbors on. And they expect to have their neighbors on. I'd prefer a checkbox with one line of text saying they would use my name though.