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Online communities have become popular among geographically distributed users of the Internet. However, there is a growing interest to use online communities to support social interaction also in geography-based communities. In this paper, we study the value of online sociability and the possibilities to support local networking by online communities in two different online communities. We present the results of a survey carried out among Finnish users of Facebook, and complement the with user interviews of a local community service of Helsinki city surroundings. The results show that Facebook is used mainly for nourishing existing friendships online and less for organizing local activities and meeting new people. However, the results can be utilized as implications for designing sociability in location-oriented online communities.