Back in the day, neighbors had to communicate by knocking on each other's doors or chatting over the fence. Nowadays, we have "NextDoor." Globally, the platform has around 100 million users, and in the UK, one in four households says they're on "NextDoor."
Every neighborhood probably has its weirdo, and when there's a platform for them to voice their complaints, you can rest assured there's going to be some top-tier comedy. Luckily, for the rest of us, an online community collects these types of posts and lets all of us "NextDoor" outsiders see the madness that is neighbor relations. Maybe you'll consider joining such a neighboorhood just for the laughs after going through this list?
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#1 Finally An Actual Funny Post On Nd
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#2 Oh Lordy This One Got Me 😂
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#3 Maga's House Burns Down, Posts For Help, Then Gets Burned In A Reply
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Forget WhatsApp or Facebook groups if you want to keep in touch with your neighbors and stay on top of the neighborhood goss. "NextDoor" is the next big thing for all the Flanderses out there who can't wait to hit their neighbors with an "Okily dokily!", some petty complaints, or a suspiciously prejudiced hot take.
In the U.S., 13% of all adults use "NextDoor," which is about 220,000 neighborhoods all across America. In 2024, researchers from New York University and the University of Michigan studied "NextDoor" users and compiled a comprehensive portrait of "NextDoor" communities.
They found that "NextDoor" users are more often those who live in sparsely populated areas. These residents are also more likely to be white, wealthy, older, and more educated.
#4 The Case Of The Tresspassing Raccoons
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#5 Voice Activated Paper Towels
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#6 An Extremely Insightful Post About Something
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But what do people on "NextDoor" actually talk about? It's not all nonsense and ridiculousness like what you see on this list. The researchers from the 2024 study found that there are three main topics that people usually post about on "NextDoor":
- Posts offering or seeking services or goods,
- Posts about perceived suspicious persons,
- Lost pets,
- Transportation issues,
- Events,
- And pleasantries, such as wishing happy holidays or celebrating the current weather.
Posts about supposedly suspicious people are most likely to get the most engagement, and most of us can imagine why. They account for only 6% of all posts on "NextDoor," but are the most worrying because they might encourage radicalized community surveillance.
#7 Look At This Sinister Rock
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#8 Can We Get Some Contractors Or Builders To Stop This Maniac? 😭
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#9 Did Bezos Write This?
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Sometimes, law enforcement agencies are present in "NextDoor" communities. Again, it's probably not surprising that this more often applies to non-white neighborhoods or communities where income inequality is greater. At the same time, they're also present on "NextDoor" in neighborhoods where the residents have higher incomes and the real estate value is higher.
#10 Are They Unloading D***s?
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Sometimes, law enforcement agencies are present in "NextDoor" communities. Again, it's probably not surprising that this more often applies to non-white neighborhoods or communities where income inequality is greater. At the same time, they're also present on "NextDoor" in neighborhoods where the residents have higher incomes and the real estate value is higher.
#11 Cleansing The Chem Trails With Vinegar
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#12 The Moon. It’s Moving…
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A co-author of the paper, Megan A. Brown, says that it's hard to explain why law enforcement is more present in non-white communities. "They could be there to better engage with the community, to facilitate surveillance by community members, or some combination of the two." However, the researchers warn that it might drive neighborhoods towards racial profiling and vigilante surveillance, resulting in bias from law enforcement.
#13 Maga Moron Solves The Price Of Eggs
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#14 How Do You Cook Your Batteries?
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#15 Can’t Make This Sh!t Up!
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Although it sounds really scary, that might just be the nature of any social media platform. As researcher of anthropology Sydney Yeager explained to the Baltimore Banner, most online spaces push us to extremes and groupthink. "We are invited to create divisions much more quickly and without thought, because again, there are no consequences for it and nuance requires more work than algorithms often allow."
#16 Freedumb Of Speech
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#17 Spreading The Good News
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#18 Next Level Nextdoor Boomer Scaries
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What is "NextDoor" doing about this? They have a kindness reminder feature that spots offensive language and encourages people to edit before they post. The app can also detect potentially inflammatory content. Users themselves can also report racism, misinformation, or problematic neighbor profiles to the Neighborhood Operations team.
#19 People Are Doing Things!
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#20 Ok But Like What Kind Of Horse?
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#21 My Neighbors Are Voters Y’all…
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But anthropologists shift the blame from the platform to the people who use it. Yes, the nature of "NextDoor" might drive us to be meaner, more prejudiced, and more radical, but that's no excuse to act in problematic ways. "It's not like people are going online and adopting completely new beliefs or behaviors," another anthropologist Matt Artz, told the Baltimore Banner.
#22 Anyone Recognize Him?
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#23 “I Don’t Care”
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#24 This Can't Be Correct
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"They might be performing an aspect of their identity they may have to suppress offline," Artz added. If the platform were to stop taking precautions, a community may express itself as it wishes. And an unchecked, self-regulating community like that might turn into something akin to Lord of the Flies.
#25 Walking The Line Between Complaint And Poetry
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#26 Guy Creates Account And Misspells His Name. Blames Nd. Wilter It Is!
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#27 What In The Ham Sammich
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What is the key to being a good neighbor? According to the professor of communication at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Dawn O. Braithwaite, Ph.D., it's civility. She posits that most of us want similar things in life; we just disagree about how to achieve them. If we hear each other out without trying to be right, we might just understand other points of view.
Civility is the backbone of democracy, Brathwaite says. "For democracy to exist and thrive, multiple sides must respectfully articulate their positions, essentially putting concepts and proposals into the free marketplace of ideas."
#28 What Does This Even Mean?
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#29 I Had No Clue What Nextdoor Was Until I Was Invited To Join. Boy Did I Learn Quick…
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#30 You Have Too Many Keys On Your Keychain To Live In Our Community
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Do you think the neighbors from this list could learn some civility? Or is it ultimately not that deep and people just sometimes don't think before posting? Let us know what you think in the comments, Pandas, and share your craziest encounters with neighboring Pandas. Then, if you want to see more crazy posts from r/NextDoor, head over here and here to see our previous posts!
#31 Non-Regular Fog
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#32 I’d Be Mortified If This Was My Mother
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#33 Isis Spotted In Cleveland
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#34 Your Loss Is My Gain 🤷🏻♂️
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#35 Who Said That?
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#36 So Sick Of This!
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#37 Evidence
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#38 User Clearly Explains How They Are Not A Racist
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#39 So Is Nextdoor Just, Like, Free Ubereats/Doordash Now?
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#40 Read. Just... Freaking... Read!
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#41 Absolutely Diabolical Post I Found
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#42 The Deleted Post In Question Was Her Asking For Money And Posting Her Cashapp. I Reported It And Then She Posts This
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#43 Sounds Like You Just Want An Hour Of Labor Without Paying For It
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#44 "Fogvid-24"
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#45 That Holistic Common Sense
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#46 Ummm What?
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#47 Why Is This Guy Blocking My Driveway?
I watched the video and read the comments, he is talking about the car legally parked across the street from his driveway. The car apparently belongs to one of the 2 houses across the street.
Some other boomers asked why that car couldn't use their driveway and they were being rude and maybe OOP should "accidentally" back into it or slash the tires.
Most of the comments were making fun of the guy and telling him it's legal.
Just to note, I think I know this street and it's super wide, like 3 cars could easily drive side by side down it.
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#48 No Lowball Offers. I Know What I’ve Got
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#49 Deport The Four Year Olds Because They Picked A Tomato
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#50 Aren’t They Both An Act Of God?
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