By providing your work or residential address, you get to discover the people who live/work within 15 minutes walk away from you. The privacy aspect works as 2-way street, in order to see your neighbours, you need to also display your profiles. On the site, you're allowed to interact with people within 15 minutes walking distance. On the site, there are posts such as asking about the best brunch place in the area, organizing a running club on Sunday mornings, inviting people to an event in town, creating a poll survey on a certain subject, notifying a great promotion in the area, posting a parking spot for rent...and goes on.
Think of Kinjoe like Facebook but for your community (By the way, you can also log in using your Facebook account, no need to remember another username or password.) I joined the site 2 months ago using my work address in Yaletown since I was told that it has the most user base so far. What I like about this new social site is that you don't have to be a "friend" with someone or "follow" someone in order to connect with people. ------> That's what being a neighbour is for! So far, I heard the site is available for use in Vancouver and Victoria. I am sure once it upgrades and makes more modifications, it'll be a full running site and picks up the steam.
What I would also like to see is the opportunity of Kinjoe presence in school campuses or residences, where it provides the function for new or existing students to organize study groups or events. Overall, I see a great potential of this site. As part of the existing user, I would love to see how this would revolutionize the definition of "community" in an urban setting of this modern virtual world.
