Facebook goes hyperlocal with Neighborhoods
Cory Bergman August 20th, 2007
About three weeks ago, a new third-party application from Point2 called Neighborhoods made its debut on Facebook, and it’s very impressive. Already in Seattle, 1,200 users have selected their neighborhoods, which means they can now meet their neighbors, invite their neighbors to events, upload photos, browse real estate listings and post items on “The Wall” — a bulletin board of sorts. With the social network already established, you can just imagine what else they could add to the application. While media companies struggle with launching financially-viable hyperlocal destinations, Facebook is well on its way to doing it. Screen grab from the West Seattle neighborhood…
10 Comments Add your own
1. Dave | August 20th, 2007 at 2:28 pm
Another great addition to Facebook. It will be interesting to see how the younger folks react with more features that attract adults and more importantly, their parents.
There’s a definite balancing act Facebook will have to play as they continue to grow.
2. Michael Gay | August 20th, 2007 at 2:33 pm
I have a complaint about Facebook. It wouldn’t let me register. It said my name wasn’t allowed and I had to go through an approval process. The site said “Facebook disallows certain names and words in names that tend to be associated with fake accounts.” What seems fake about “Michael Gay”?
Hmm….
3. Steve | August 20th, 2007 at 3:10 pm
So will this help facilitate more key parties?
4. Cory | August 20th, 2007 at 4:56 pm
Hey Michael, I did a check and found others with your same name. I wonder how they signed up??
5. saundra | August 20th, 2007 at 6:55 pm
So, how does this square with all the lectures I give my 13-year-old about not putting ANY personal information out there on the web. How might a potential criminal element exploit this bit of zip-coded info????
6. BaghdadBrian | August 20th, 2007 at 8:39 pm
Maybe I’m just old fashioned (or from the south where we believe in conversation and porches and free refills), but this seems a little much to me.
Then again, I don’t use facebook and don’t really get “social-networking.” I like to talk to people, and I’m not afraid to talk to my neighbors before putting them through something analogous to a 2.0 neighbor-dating service.
where will it all end?
7. Dave Lee | August 21st, 2007 at 7:47 am
Michael… sign up with a slight variation (Michael Guy?) and then you can request to change your name once registered. I think.
8. Rick | August 21st, 2007 at 10:33 am
I had a different odd experience with Facebook. I has signed up using a company email address, and everything seemed fine until last week when I was told the account had been closed.
I finally heard back from their customer service person, with this:
Facebook profiles are intended for use by a single individual. Groups, clubs, and other types of organizations are not permitted to maintain an account. I apologize for the inconvenience, but you will no longer be able to use this account.
If you would like to use Facebook to bring your organization together and coordinate activities, we offer a Groups feature. Facebook Groups allow people to come together to express objectives, discuss issues,
post photos, etc. If you have a personal Facebook profile, you can create one of these groups from that account. The option to ‘Create Group’ is available at the top of the Groups page.”
Ummm….what made them think I was using my account as a ‘group’ account?
Weird.
9. hello | January 31st, 2008 at 3:59 pm
hey people get a life, sitting in front of computer and post photos of you that doesn’t eve look like you is very cheap, and if you are attractive then why you need facebook to tell the world that
10. Larry Lang | February 23rd, 2008 at 12:03 am
I think that the addition of facebooks and point2 neighborhoods wil mesh tgether nicely, being associated with both.
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