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by rich_sasha 3 hours ago
One thing I saw receive very little attention is that social media seems to be a bit recruitment platform for the various thief gangs in the UK [1]. It suits everyone that kids do this, as they are gullible, cheap to hire, and have a more lenient penal code.

Sure, as with everything, this ban ks circumventable. But more and more I don't see any social utility of these networks at all. It's the cigarettes or our time.

They're not even particularly social any more. Most posting is done by professional influencers and disinformation bots. And criminals, it seems.

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/police-londo...