Facebooking for neighborhood

I think this is a good idea, but the ideal is to have real life contact. The virtual community can be used to chat with people you already know in real life, but I think it is not so good to meet people over the Internet. But maybe this way the people who know each other in real life by sight, but didn't ever talked, to find each other, seeing that they have common things and they can transpose this virtual relation into real life. Good luck for your project, I like it when I see people with initiative. Even if you fail, heads up and try again, because you will learn from your failures.

Knowing your purpose is good. But ofcourse control all members of the group so your purpose wont be out.

That is fine - as long as the neighbors are agreeable to it! I didn't make an actual Facebook group, but I did connect to a few of my neighbors as we are families with little ones. The only sticky part was when they would mention things about our manager and building owner . . . we had a great relationship with the manager and I personally knew the owner as he was my friend's husband . . . but I didn't dare tell any of the other tenants that. Once our neighbor had bad cleaning issues and wanted to know how to get contact information of apartment owners as the manager wouldn't give it to her (I stayed out of that conversation). For stuff like that, I wish I wasn't connected to them! Now we newly live in a house, and I mostly like my neighbors. But, I'd like to keep private for now - at this time anyway. I already found a few neighbors on Facebook just by a name search on Facebook, but I didn't want to friend request them - not just yet anyway. I want to make better contact with them personally first and get to know them better because I don't know if want them to know my entire business. A group might be good though . . . because then I could keep in contact with everyone on Facebook yet not feel obligated to "friend" them. If everyone can be courteous, that is . . . if neighborhood cat fights start happening on screen, then I'd want out!

If all the neighbors are close and friends and have a facebook page it could be a great idea It would be nice to be updated to birthdays, anniversaries, illnesses and special events that are going on in town. You will have to talk to all of them or see if they have a page online and ask them to join. It is worth a try, if it doesn't work you can always remove the group page and try something else at another time. Good luck!

I think the proposal is fine. It can create to unity with the neigbours.

Well yanzal You are absolutely right. but not only for neighborhood, Facebook should have option to arrange contacts in location wise groups, so we can trace a friend/contact easily. also this can be helpful to indicate the contacts with fake addresses.

I think that is a good idea. That page can be a medium to disseminate information on neighborhood projects or meetings. Our neighborhood has actually a page like this. It was very helpful in having constant communication with the members of the community. However, I left the same when people started talking bad about the leaders Of the neighborhood association and other people. I just did not like it. The page is suppose to unite neighborhood And not destroy other's reputations.

You are 100% totally free to create this kind of group as long as it is not intended to offend anybody. As long as as well that you won't create any gossips that can make moral damage to other people. This is good idea so that in case you won't see each other personally then at least you are still keeping in touch with other neighbors.

Sounds like a great idea, as long as the participants use the forum in a productive manner. This could be an easy way for someone to ask for something they need to a larger audience at once; you never know one neighbor may have something they no longer need, but someone else does. I know in my neighborhood trash collection changes anytime there is a holiday in the week, so it would be a good way to inform everyone in the neighborhood of this change. But it could be used in a negative way as well, and that is the productive thing I was eluding to. You wouldn't want people to start complaining about each other and using it as a sort of sounding board to "gang up" on a particular neighbor. The only thing you can do is try and see what happens.

It is a nice way to connect to each other but I guess it is better to get connected with them personally the fact that it is in the neighborhood. We also created group in Facebook, it is our school class group where in we can be connected with each other especially those who are in far places.

I think the better way to connect your neighbor is to interactive in person. You can hold a real activity instead of chatting on Facebook.

well yanzalong You are absolutely right. But not only for neighborhood, Facebook should have option to arrange contacts in location wise group, so we can trace a friend/contacts easily. also this can be helpful to indicate the contacts with fake addresses