Number Neighbor / Text Door Neighbor
About
Number Neighbor, also known as Text Door Neighbor, is a mobile social game in which players send a text message to the phone number with its last digit one numeral higher or lower than their own. For example, if their phone number is 555-5555, then their text door neighbor is 555-5554 or 555-5556.
Origin
On August 11th, 2008, Urban Dictionary user dan_the_01[1] defined "Text Door Neighbor" as:
"The people who are a digit either side of your phone number- Many a friendship has been struck up by saying hi to a text door neighbour.
Woody- 'Hey Dan, what happened when you got in touch with your text door neighbour?'
Dan- 'Absolutley nothing witheither of them- both were nutters!'"
Spread
On January 4th, 2016, the Mirror[3] published an article about Text Door Neighbor. Other publications soon followed, including The Daily Mail,[4] Metro,[2] and Distractify.[5]
On January 5th, 2016, the subreddit /r/textdoor[3] launched. The subreddit allows users to post their experiences messaging their text door neighbors.
Boing Boing[6] published "Have you texted your textdoor neighbor?" on April 8th, 2017. The article pointed to /r/textdoor and the re-emergence of the trend.
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External References
[1] Urban Dictionary – Text Door Neighbor
[2] Metro – People are messaging their 'text door neighbor' and it's not going well
[3] The Mirror – Do you know who your text door neighbour is? Craze for making friends with strangers sweeps the internet
[4] The Daily Mail – Do you know who your TEXT door neighbour is? Craze for sending a message to the person with the mobile number nearly identical to yours becomes an internet trend
[5] Distractify via Wayback Machine – People Are Messaging Their 'Text Door Neighbors' And It's Not Going Well
[6] Boing Boing – Have you texted your textdoor neighbor?
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Nedhitis
Apr 11, 2017 at 02:03PM EDT
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Apr 11, 2017 at 12:21PM EDT