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“Ironically, an online service seems to be a popular way to rekindle the human connections that many have lost, and still hunger for. “I started out using Nextdoor to ask for things like restaurant recommendations, just kind of a local search engine,” says Matthew Tortorella, a police officer in San Diego. “But after a while people would recognize me on the street from my Nextdoor profile, and strike up a conversation or just say hi.” Asked why he wasn’t meeting his neighbors before, Tortorella said it felt more natural this way. “It’s weird, I guess, but, having these interactions online was really the thing that led to finally meeting people face to face.””