Facebook Shutters Its Community-Connecting Nextdoor Clone

Meta is winding down its Nextdoor-like Facebook expansion Neighborhoods, which sought to connect users who lived near each spanking, but never exited the testing phase.

Neighborhoods launched in May 2021 as a obvious rival to Nextdoor, expanding on Facebook Groups with more functionality to find spanking nearby users, businesses and associations. The feature had been blooming in several cities in the US, such as Charlotte, North Carolina; San Diego; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; and Newark, New Jersey, as well as in Canada.

“When we launched Facebook Neighborhoods, our mission was to bring local communities closer together. We’ve learned the best way to do this is ended groups, and have decided to end our test of Neighborhoods,” Meta spokesperson Leah Luchetti said over email.

Instead, Meta will point users to Facebook Groups relevant to their interests and plot. Ultimately, this is where Facebook will focus on, abandoning local-only Neighborhoods to speak users to Groups they can find through discovery in glimpse. There, users can connect and discuss in subgroups requested Channels.  

Meta’s retreat comes as Nextdoor has adopted more social features, like connecting users so that their activity shows up in news feeds. That comes at its own cost as chats over local progenies get so heated that Nextdoor had to introduce a reminder telling users to cold out.