I am on the Nextdoor app and half of the time I am not even sure why I am on it. Sometimes there are some useful posts and information, but most of the time people are arguing on the posts and telling people they are stupid for making the post. However, I would not have the amazing plumber and air conditioning company that I have had I not asked for recommendations on Nextdoor, so there is that. Honestly, most of the time there is a bunch of drivel and negativity, and my most recent post on Nextdoor is proof of that.
Last week I saw a couple of posts on Nextdoor about an Amazon delivery driver who may have removed the item being delivered from the packaging and just set the empty envelope in front of their door, and pretended he delivered an envelope with something inside. I could see from the Ring video posted that it was the same guy, and it was about a mile from me both times. The other day I got a delivery and when I went to retrieve it about a minute after the Amazon driver left it, I found an empty envelope, and there should have been two paperback books in there. I inspected the envelope and I could see where it had been carefully opened and resealed. Ironically, the two books were about crime. I was pretty miffed because these books were a birthday present to myself, and I was really looking forward to reading them. But all I had was an empty envelope.
I looked at the footage from my Ring camera and what do you know, it was the same Amazon driver from the other two posts on Nextdoor. I attempted to find those other two posts so I could add my Ring video to one of the posts, but wouldn’t you know I could not long find either post, which is typical for Nextdoor…..you can never find a post ever again. Ok, so I decided to create my own post about this guy because apparently we have an Amazon driver in the area who is stealing from people. Worth posting about it right? Um well…….sure. LOL
So I started my post. I didn’t want attention from the post; I just wanted to inform and I was hoping that maybe, just maybe, people would realize that. Silly me. I tried to think of all the things that people would tell me so that I could add them to my post, like “Did you report it because you need to report it”, “How do you know he delivered an empty envelope”, actually you could see in the video that the envelope clearly did not have two books in it but ok…….“Did you ask for a replacement”, and so on and so forth. I felt that I explained the situation really thoroughly and carefully. I felt that I was clear that I only meant to inform, and I stated that since there were two other incidents just like this with the same Amazon delivery guy, that maybe people needed to know. Um sure.
The post did not disappoint. There were people commenting seconds after I created the post telling me to report it (I clearly said I reported it), people telling me I could get a replacement. People saying that they appreciate my post. People telling me that Amazon sucks. One of the people who this also happened to commiserated with me and said they appreciate me also reporting this. But then……all the idiotic comments started to appear. “You have way too much time on your hands. This is a stupid post.” “Get over it and just request new books. Why do you need to tell the neighbors about this.” “Quit freaking out and get a life.” “Thanks for wasting my time with this crap.” “You’re making way too big a deal about this. Calm down!!!” “Who cares! You’re an idiot!” “You can’t prove the driver took it. What if someone ran up to your door and took it. Stop accusing people of committing crime!” And so on and so on……I actually laughed about it because I knew what was going to happen, although I did hold out hope that perhaps I would not get all these crazy comments.
So I sat there and kept reading the comments as they appeared. There were 200 comments in all before I stopped reading them. Only about 50 were supportive, and the rest were mean and viscous. One of my reactions was, “Shit, these people live in my community! Yikes!” I purposely do not have my actual address listed nor do I have my profession or anything about myself just for the reason that people seem to be a little nutty. Although, I am not sure if they are just hiding behind a keyboard and in person they would not act like this?
I have noticed a pattern about comments on posts on any type social media, etc., because they are all the same. You have the supportive comments, then the comments that attack, then someone attacking the attackers, then someone telling the poster that they are sorry it happened or that they support whatever, then the comments where there is an attack and I’m not even sure what the person is saying…..it’s like they just attack randomly. It’s always the same. I have studied hundreds of posts on social media, and there is always the same pattern.
So I sat there wondering if I was going to delete the Nextdoor app, because really what good is it? I did delete my post and I did not reply to anyone because why give life to the idiots. Lol. I have found some good information on the app, and sometimes I am grateful for the information posted about the neighborhood. I decided to give it time to see if it’s worth it to keep it, and I won’t make any decisions today. However, this morning I was already alerted to a post about someone’s dog peeing on someone else’s lawn and there was a video of the offender, with the poster losing their mind over a dog peeing at the edge of their lawn. I just laughed. I am betting that I will appear in a video with my cute little Jack Russell peeing at the edge of someone’s lawn. And of course the comments do not disappoint!
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