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I get safety alerts from Nextdoor for my neighborhood. Even then over half of the alerts are misleading/inaccurate interpretations of people's paranoid biases.
by y-c-o-m-b 5y ago
I get safety alerts from Nextdoor for my neighborhood. Even then over half of the alerts are misleading/inaccurate interpretations of people's paranoid biases. For example the other day somebody posted a Ring video of a "dangerous man" knocking on neighbor's doors. I recognized the person right away as a pest control representative that was at my house just the day before. Turns out the person posting the alert never answered the door and apparently didn't see the pest control logo on the man's shirt and hat. How they came to the conclusion that someone was "dangerous" based on zero interaction is not only negligent but interestingly is in itself dangerous. Taking that up a notch to vigilantism is a horrible idea and will lead to Ahmaud Arbery types of situations on a much wider scale.
- Balgair 5y agoThe twitter account BestOfNextDoor is a pretty good and funny highlight of the paranoid lunacy that you get there: https://twitter.com/bestofnextdoor https://twitter.com/bestofnextdoor Personally, I prefer to think of my neighbors as a bit kinder than their reality. I've since deleted the app and my head is firmly buried in the sand.