{"id":7205,"date":"2021-06-21T11:22:28","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T15:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=7205"},"modified":"2021-08-03T10:25:42","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T14:25:42","slug":"facebooks-neighborhoods-faces-competition-with-platforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/facebooks-neighborhoods-faces-competition-with-platforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook\u2019s \u2018Neighborhoods\u2019 Faces Competition With Platforms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Facebook&#8217;s &#8220;Neighborhoods&#8221; feature, designed as a special place for connecting users with their local communities, will face a host of challenges, some of which involve stiff competition from other already established platforms such as Nextdoor, Amazon Ring&#8217;s Neighbors and the crime-tracking app Citizen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Issues such as misinformation, racial profiling and privacy issues are also worrying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nextdoor, a well-known hyper-local social networking service, notes that it covers one-third of U.S. households and operates in 276,000 neighborhoods worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This will be one of Facebook&#8217;s biggest challenges in the hyper-local market as they will have to overcome its competitor&#8217;s lead while working to prevent Facebook groups &#8220;excesses of false claims and violent incitement,&#8221; to make sure it doesn&#8217;t &#8220;manipulate itself into the &#8220;Neighborhoods&#8221; feature.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/facebooks-neighborhoods-faces-crowded-niche-market-profiling-concerns-2021-06-18\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Reuters.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook&#8217;s &#8220;Neighborhoods&#8221; feature to have plenty of competition with other similar platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[43],"class_list":["post-7205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companies","tag-facebook"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7205"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7250,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7205\/revisions\/7250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}