About this app

South Bay Social provides the best mobile and social has to offer. It’s local done right – presented and operated in South Bay by local residents.

South Bay Social is all about community - for and between community members.

Serving residents and visitors of the South Bay community, and the surrounding communities, South Bay Social provides information that truly matters - as it happens, in a trusted environment that all participants are passionate about and have a vested interest in: their town.

A big high school game on Saturday between the local team and its rival? A festival or sidewalk sale taking place on main street? Upcoming construction scheduled at the town’s busiest intersection? A special cause for kids at the park this weekend? Early school closures before the expected afternoon snowfall?

South Bay Social creates for local residents and businesses a mobile community that enables real-time, location-based communication.

The service’s home screen features a real-time bulletin board displaying posts from all active users within the community. These messages are delivered as push notifications as events unfold, providing users with real-time information that’s relevant to their community.

Community members can use the service to exchange location-based messages or ‘flags.’ For example, parents can receive automated messages whenever their children leave school or step off the bus. Businesses can leave these virtual flags for interested customers at any physical location in town. As an intended recipient approaches one of these invisible flags, her mobile device reveals the contextually relevant message that was left – providing the context of time and place at every step in the journey.

South Bay Social features a battery-safe technology that enables the service to run variable GPS checks while the app operates in the device background.

South Bay Social enables participating businesses to launch and maintain ongoing loyalty programs. No more printing of punch cards, worrying about program expirations, or asking customers to present those punch cards while on the checkout aisle. The Community Loyalty feature allows residential consumers to automatically aggregate points for visiting participating businesses. And with businesses providing their own unique offers, loyal customers will have a chance to earn rewards as they visit on an ongoing basis.

South Bay Social provides a real-time chat feature that enables all active users to engage in direct communication, which can be used by and between residents and business owners.

There’s an exciting groups feature that allows users of all types – residents, businesses, city governments and agencies, non-profit organizations, etc. – to create public or private groups. Each group contains its own bulletin board, flag and chat capability, image gallery and much more.

And then there’s South Bay Social’s Community First Responder feature, which provides a vital layer of security for all community members. With a single tap, users can initiate a location-based alert to all users - dramatically increasing overall incident awareness. Community First Responder is designed to ‘crowd source’ early responders. All community members can be made immediately aware when an incident occurs, creating an opportunity for those nearby or headed in the direction of an incident to avoid the scene altogether. It also enables those nearby who may be capable of assisting to get to the scene and help out in a way that’s most appropriate.

South Bay Social is for everyone: consumers, businesses and anyone else interested in experiencing the Internet in the physical world – customized specifically for their community.

New features

Welcome to the new and improved South Bay Social app! We have been working really hard to improve the experience for you. Check out below for what’s in this release.

* Bug fixes for a smoother experience.
* Enhanced performance because you deserve an app that keeps up with you.
* Better loading time because we know you are always on the go!

Stay tuned for our next update because we hope you really like it. Thank you for using the South Bay Social App!

App Permissions

Allows an app to access approximate location.
Allows an app to access precise location.
Allows an application to access extra location provider commands.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Marker permission for applications that wish to access notification policy.
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows an application to write to external storage.
Allows an application to read or write the system settings.
Allows an application to receive the ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED that is broadcast after the system finishes booting.
Allows access to the list of accounts in the Accounts Service.
Allows access to the vibrator.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.
Allows an application to read the user's contacts data.
Allows an application to read from external storage.