Facebook islaunching a new featuretoday to help you keep in touch with your local community: Neighborhoods.

Its essentially the social networks take on dedicated community social web link appslikeNextdoor.

It also lacks some of the specificity that groups have.

Facebook’s ‘Neighborhoods’ looks a whole lot like Nextdoor

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While the feature feels like clearly inspired by apps like NextDoor, I can see it being useful.

Whether anyone actually uses the feature remains to be seen.

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The feature is launching in Canada first, and will begin to roll out to select US cities soon.

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