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    Robin Abcarian: The social network Nextdoor was supposed to encourage kindness among neighbors

    by Robin Abcarian, Los Angeles Times Nov 18, 2021 3 minutes

    It's become conventional wisdom that the proliferation of social media sites and the ease with which strangers can communicate has led to a deterioration of civility. This is only partly true.

    Having been an opinion spouter long before Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat came along, I have always been on the receiving end of nastiness and abuse. (Also, lots of kindness and encouragement, but that's beside the point.)

    Feedback used to come to me by letter, postcard and telephone. Then by email. And now, of course, on social media.

    Over the years, I've learned

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