In just 10 years, the old ladies at the entrances

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The board game lovers, and the groups of teenagers in the courtyards have disappeared. Only mothers with strollers remain, and even they are busy with smartphones, not talking to each other. Of course, there are exceptions, but in general, the appearance and atmosphere of courtyards in Russian cities have changed beyond recognition. But it can’t be that people have completely stopped communicating with their neighbors, asking them for help, or uniting into initiative groups?

It's just that the main activity moved from the courtyards to the Internet. Residents of one district (in the case of megacities) or city first began to unite on local forums - remember these forums that worked on local networks, and to use them you did not need to spend expensive kilobytes of the Internet? Then many migrated to Vkontakte groups. But in this social denmark mobile phone numbers database network, district communities failed to fully develop - apparently due to the dominance of advertising spam and the lack of tools for self-regulation of groups.



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In many provincial cities and districts, the main channel of communication is still forums and groups on VKontakte. But in Moscow, the most active district communities have settled on Facebook.

Recently, a post about a man who often goes to IKEA and buys necessary things for his neighbors from the Aeroport and Sokol districts has gained enormous popularity on Russian Facebook. The benefactor and the group Airport/Sokol Da Neighborhood have become famous throughout the social network, although this community already had enough fame — it has more than 7.3 thousand members.

Every day they share news about the area (about changes in parking rules, about openings of new establishments, about meetings with the local government, about the authorities' plans for improvement), ask for advice (about schools, kindergartens, sports clubs, cafes and services) and for help (to give a ride, to fix something at home), leave reviews about various establishments, write about things they found and share unnecessary things, look for tutors and nannies. The community has its favorite topics and legendary people, for example, a man who feeds birds, sings and dances.