33. A method comprising: verifying that a user lives at a residence associated with a residential address claimed by the user of an online neighborhood social network using a processor and a memory; creating a social network page of the user once verified in the online neighborhood social network; distributing, via the processor and the memory, a message from the user to neighboring users that are verified to live within a neighborhood boundary of the residence; designating, via the processor and the memory, the user as a lead user having an additional privilege in a private website of the online neighborhood social network confined by the neighborhood boundary based on at least one of a participation level of the user in the online neighborhood social network and an activity level of the user associated with encouraging neighboring users to participate in the online neighborhood social network; automatically determining, via the processor and memory, a set of access privileges in the private website of the online neighborhood social network associated with the user; and restricting access, via the processor and the memory, to a particular neighborhood in the private website of the online neighborhood social network to the user and to neighboring users living within the neighborhood boundary of the residence, permitting, via the processor and the memory, the user of the online neighborhood social network to mark certain information communicated to a particular neighboring user as private; and designating, via the processor and the memory, the certain information shared only with the particular neighboring user as non-public to other neighboring users of the online neighborhood social network, wherein the neighboring users are determined based on each residence associated with each geographic location claimed by each neighboring user of the online neighborhood social network that is within the neighborhood boundary.
37. The method of claim 33 : utilizing a postcard method through which the computer server generates a physical postcard that is postal mailed to neighboring users living within the neighborhood boundary of the online neighborhood social network.