Do creepy men hang out on Nextdoor app?

[GeidiPrimes]

I've posted a thread on ND asking for a recommendation for a mobile hairdresser and I've had 2 replies. One from someone with a womans name and profile photo, asking me for photos to "see if they can help", other one from a man asking me to PM him and he will give me the number.

Am I just being paranoid? I would never ask a woman to send me a photo, because, well, creepy men do it.

Just to clarify, you can't hide your address in Privacy settings. It's either your exact address with door number, or your address without door number. No other option. Bloody idiots who own the app should be sued.

I had to delete it, my mum told me to download it but when I did it seemed more like a dating app!

I love the BestOfNextdoor on Twitter

YES!! I’ve recently seen multiple posts from a weirdo creeper on my local one (I’m in Sydney). It’s not a dating app, which is what he thinks it is apparently.

I went to join next door and then saw everyone was using their real names. There's no way I want to use my real identity online, especially in a local thing where people might recognise me.

On my Nextdoor (in a rather posh and affluent area) there is a Fancy a Shag group with 104 members. A hairdressing post sounds quite nice in comparison!

I posted about a welcoming event that was taking place for refugees and soon realised I didn’t like this app.

Got a few ‘why don’t they just go home’ comments and when I responded that this wasn’t the point of my sharing of the event - one man accused me of not allowing people the right to freedom of speech. I’m going to say it’s a place where mostly white ‘you’re not local’ men demand the right to an abhorrent opinion. Steer well clear.

@DianaT1969

Just to clarify, you can't hide your address in Privacy settings. It's either your exact address with door number, or your address without door number. No other option. Bloody idiots who own the app should be sued.

Nothing to stop you lying on there, though. And people do.

@LittleLottieChaos

I posted about a welcoming event that was taking place for refugees and soon realised I didn’t like this app.

Got a few ‘why don’t they just go home’ comments and when I responded that this wasn’t the point of my sharing of the event - one man accused me of not allowing people the right to freedom of speech. I’m going to say it’s a place where mostly white ‘you’re not local’ men demand the right to an abhorrent opinion. Steer well clear.

I agree. A woman posted recently on our Nextdoor about celebrating

The International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and she got a load of 'white lives matter too' shit, and people calling her a 'woke moron'. I reported several posts and they were taken down, but that's the kind of old white man you get on there.

Our local Next Door doesn’t seem full of pervy men exactly, but it does seem to be populated by middle aged men who appear to watch the board like hawks, and then swoop in to comment with rubbish, usually sexist or racist jokes at the first at available opportunity.