Civics 101: How to Use a Facebook App to Get Your Street’s Pothole Fixed

Could fixing your neighborhood problems, from potholes to graffiti to parking violations, be addictive as playing Farmville on Facebook? A brand new Facebook application from SeeClickFix is out with a grand experiment to put that addiction to the test.

Could fixing your neighborhood problems, from potholes to graffiti to parking violations, be addictive as playing Farmville on Facebook?   A brand new Facebook application from SeeClickFix is out with a grand experiment to put that addiction to the test.

For the unfamiliar used to phoning in their complaints, SeeClickFix is a Web-based tool that lets citizens notify officials of non-emergency problems in their community.  As the name implies, SeeClickFix is a type of crowd-sourced, civic to-do list.

A SeeClickFix user reports an issue, a parking violation on their street, for example, and uploads the information to the site.

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