Nextdoor Trumansburg Experiment Begins
One of our neighbors has started our village off on an online experiment – a networking attempt using the Nextdoor web site’s structure. You’ll find it at Trumansburg Nextdoor.
Unlike other social networking systems online, this one requires a personal verification by regular old postal mail. They send a postcard to confirm your address, with information you need to enter. So, no snoopers from Enfield could crash this party.
So far, there are just three of us signed up. The way the system works is that, if there aren’t 10 more verified members in the next two weeks, Trumansburg Nextdoor will be shut down.
A network like this, used to spread news throughout our community, didn’t exist in our parents’ generation. Whether Trumansburg Nextdoor itself takes off or not, there will eventually be one or several such networks that do catch on, and that will change our lives significantly.
The technology is here, though, and I say that it’s better for us not to back away from it in fear. Is anyone else in?
Why not just do an email/listserv thing? It’s probably easier and more direct in the long run. If I have to have another user account that I have to log into (not to mention another login & password to remember) I’m going to explode… or more realistically, I simply won’t bother to use the account.
What about organizing a weekly discussion group at Gimme or Good To Go? Meet your neighbors face-to-face and support local business at the same time!
“The technology is here, though, and I say that it’s better for us not to back away from it in fear.”
Fear has nothing to do with it (although for some, maybe it does.) Just because something can be done on a computer doesn’t mean it is better if it is. For a place like Trumansburg, I don’t think this website has any advantage over simply getting to know your neighbors personally.
Trumansburg and Ulysses what a wonderful places, my sister lives there, she’s soo lucky