Friends & Neighbors: How Nextdoor Hopes to Bring Communities Together

Excerpts from a December 21, 2015, interview on CBS This Morning:

“We are a social network but we’re a social network solving problems, so it’s not about status updates, it’s not about photo sharing,” [Nextdoor] CEO and founder Nirav Tolia told “CBS This Morning” Monday.

“Now technology can play a role in bringing back that sense of community and Nextdoor is an icebreaker–it’s not a replacement for the conversation that you have with your neighbors, it just makes it easy for those to happen.”

Nextdoor can also be used as a “virtual neighborhood watch” to make the community safer. The company has partnered with some 1,500 police departments nationwide to foster dialogue between neighbors and law enforcement.

For a transcript of the interview, visit http://www.cbsnews.com/news/nextdoor-private-social-network-build-relations-neighborhoods/

Click image to view video from CBS This Morning; or visit http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/how-nextdoor-app-hopes-to-bring-communities-together. There is a short (30 second) commercial message at the beginning of the video.

To learn more about University City’s Neighborhood Watch program, visit https://www.universitycitynews.org/neighborhood-watch/

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What do Facebook, Twitter, Nextdoor, ImproveUC and UCCA have in common?

They are all ways neighbors can connect with neighbors and the University City community. Create a post, start a conversation, share the news, organize an event, keep in touch, take a look:

• Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/universitycitycommunityassociation
• Twitter – https://twitter.com/UCCA_SD
• Nextdoor – https://nextdoor.com/sandiego/
• ImproveUC – http://improveuc.org/
• UCCA – https://www.universitycitynews.org/