Reviving an old thread. I've just had a letter identical to jackdaww's, ostensibly from someone in our village who doesn't appear to exist. (It's a small village.) Hmmmm....... Is anybody else using it? Upsides, downsides?
At present I'm not feeling inclined to take up the kind offer - partly because I don't do social media at all anyway, but mostly because I don't think it's a particularly great idea to have my name and full address plastered over anything that I contributed to the group. There are just too many stories of people getting caught up in neighbourhood disputes because they complained about bad parking or loud parties or dogsh*t. (Or Brex*t, for that matter.)
And then there are those, apparently, who use Nextdoor to yoohoo to all their friends from Marbella, where they're spending two weeks on the beach. Okay, that's fourteen days now that the burglars have got now to get into the house and do their stuff. Duhhhhhh.
But hey, what's the worst that can happen? Your posts will only be seen by people from your area, no? Not if the stories about false email identities and spoofed house numbers are anything to go by. So how long before I start getting approaches from bored housewives called Tammy or Britney who just happen to live close to me?
BJ