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Opinion: Nextdoor: With friends like these, who needs frenemies?
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Nextdoor: With friends like these, who needs frenemies?

– it was hostile and hateful. Not always, but often. Spending an inordinate amount of time on it, as I did, was bad for the soul.

In my neighbourhood, coyote alerts abound, which as a cat owner I personally appreciate. But if a cat mom has taken to the app with a plea for any word on Fluffy, uncharacteristically missing now for days, this is not the time to berate her in all-caps-plus-angry-face-emojis for letting Fluffy out in the first place.

Someone else posted a security-camera photo of a young person who had ding-dong-ditched their house, and before you could say nicky-nicky-nine doors, the pile-on was on. People rightly chastised the poster for publicly sharing photos of youth engaged in a harmless prank. Another disagreed and suggested they post that photo far and wide; alllll over town. Harmless? Please.

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