Response to the Facebook response to the London riots

I found myself added today to a Facebook group I'm a londoner...i want my city back. Having a look at it, I discovered a friend to have posted:

Benjamin Samuel We don't have enough people in this group to make a difference. Let's aim for 40,000 by 9pm.

Simi Ben Hur thanks benjamin, start adding people and make sure they all write to their MP

Tuesday, August 9, 2011 at 9:46am

I replied:

Michael Grant What does 40,000 members achieve—or even the current 2094 if most of them have been added en masse by other people? It doesn't even show they care, or are interested. It just shows they (a) are known to other people, who do, and (b) aren't uninterested enough to remove themselves?

Tuesday, August 9, 2011 at 10:09am

I thought the ensuing discussion was worth of reposting here (about which I have no qualms, as a Facebook group with thousands of members is scarcely less public than here):

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