I had high hopes for nextdoor, but like all social media it’s just another conduit for the worst in us, and ads. Each social media franchise demonstrates just how awful a different swath of people are: Twitter – celebrities and the media; Facebook – your relatives and friends; Linked In – your coworkers; nextdoor – your neighbors. Nobody left out. They each do it in their own way, and I’ll admit I prefer the earnestness to get ahead of Linked In to the smugness of Twitter.
Anyway, at one point I had managed to stop all email notifications from nextdoor but as the little girl said in Poltergeist, They’re Back. So I clicked the little unsubscribe link at the bottom of the first offending email and turned off all notifications – there were slider bars and radio boxes but I put them all to OFF/NO. Still, I keep getting emails. When I unsubscribe, nextdoor says oh, you’ve turned off this kind of notification. No, I’ve turned them all off, you just keep sending them anyway.
As you can see from the screen capture, I have unsubscribed 5 times, starting with Cat emails – yes, they actually have a Cats category of notification. The ancient Egyptians have a lot to answer for by domesticating, and I use that word loosely, cats. Talk about your unintended consequences, I’m sure no Egyptian thought that by keeping mice down with a pet many millennia later those of us without a cat obsession would be tortured over the internet by those with a cat obsession, or that instead of keeping the mouse population down they would keep the bird population down.
Somehow, I think I’m going to find out just how many category of notification emails nextdoor has before this is all over.
I know, first world problems and all, and I’d rather be complaining about the annoying side of the internet than starving.
