Nextdoor: BEAR ON MAIN STREET

Also Nextdoor: BLACK MAN ON MY STREET

By far the most common posts for my area are "I saw a fox" and "what is this animal" (it's a fox). But there are also tons of the ones you listed, except instead of where's my dog, it's where's my cat (it got hit by a car).

unfortunately I've never found a good way to convince anyone over the age of 45 who has also discovered Nextdoor, Public, Nest, or any of the other super-enhanced surveillance safety theater products/apps not to use them. Ring obviously is the worst because they have gotten cities/police departments to participate, and in my experience it is genuinely difficult explaining to your 80yo grandmother that "no, you probably shouldn't let the police department come and install a ring doorbell camera for you because they sent you a letter about the free program" when the only reason they want it is because they associate surveillance cameras with safety.

Personally I don't mind Nextdoor or any of the similar apps as much, despite the equivalent amount of boomer brainrot that happens in every instance, compared to Ring or Nest. Nothing is worse than those two as someone whose parents have installed interior Nest cameras in three different rooms on the first floor of their house as well as having doorbell cameras on the front/back porches and exterior cameras on the other two sides of their house (one literally just faces the small treeline dividing their backyard from their neighbor's....) and then also proceeded to share data from all of those devices with the police when they knocked on their door asking if they would after there was a armed robbery/car chase at like 3am that happened on the other side of their neighborhood & never even came within five blocks of their street. Every time I am at their house I wind up unplugging the interior cameras as I walk by them and always causing an argument because I'm like "wtf do you need a camera in the kitchen for" only to hear a rapid fire barrage of extreme boomer paranoid excuses like 'what if the dog accidentally turns on the oven and starts a fire while we're out' or 'someone could easily break into the bay window and climb in!!'.

Aggravates the hell out of me especially because both of my parents are smart & tech savvy enough to be aware of the fact that their data is being given away anytime a cop takes 5 seconds and fills out an Amazon/Google web-form but the cute 30 second clip of the dog playing his toy in the kitchen while they were away makes it all worth it!!

The internet can’t enter your home unless you invite it in. It’s best to access it from the public library.