Facebook has finally launched a new Nextdoor clone feature called Neighborhoods. The popular social media platform's new capability allows you to connect with those users near you. It can also connect you with a geographically defined community of people.
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Aside from this, you can also do other online activities, like answering Neighborhood Questions and commenting on your friends' posts.
BGR also reported that the new Neighborhoods feature also has another great capability to choose your role within your Facebook Neighborhood. One of these roles is a socializer.
"You can find vibrant local Facebook groups about your area, or you can create your own Neighborhoods-bounded groups based on your interests," said the giant social media platform.
"Admins of local Facebook Groups can add their Group into Neighborhoods to make it easy for people living nearby to find it," added Facebook.
Is it better than Nextdoor?
Since Facebook based its new Neighborhoods feature is based on Nextdoor, both connect various users, allowing them to exchange helpful goods, information, services. To make it simple, both of them have the same functionalities.
This means that it is hard to conclude which one has the upper hand. Aside from this, Neighborhoods is still a new feature. You still need to wait a few more days or months to see the users' opinions regarding the new social media capability.
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Written by: Griffin Davis