LOS ANGELES—In a post to the app that garnered dozens of likes, local NextDoor user Janine Parry reportedly came right out and asked this week if it was okay to set a homeless man on fire. “Hey all, I’ve seen this guy around the neighborhood a few times, and I was wondering if anyone would mind if I doused him in…
Nextdoor is fucked up because either you’re in it, or your house is probably the house they all talk about.
When I tried to sign up for it ages ago to check it out, Nextdoor wanted me to provide the email addresses of five people, which would have meant a bunch of knocking on stranger’s doors asking for sensitive information. So now I just try to ignore that it exists. They probably use a Facebook group I’m not invited to, anyway, and I do not want to know what any of them think, about anything, ever.