In Russia, vending machines allow you to buy followers

If it is already possible to buy likes or followers on social networks, the practice seems to have become widespread in Russia. A company sells vending machines to buy influence on Instagram.

This week, the Motherboard site, specializing in new technologies, has published a series of articles about distributors for the least particular. These are not chocolate bars or soda, but likes and followers. The service is offered by twenty distributors of this type in Russia, marketed by the company Snatap. They are also found in other European countries such as Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic.

So to buy 100 likes on a picture, it will cost you 79 centimes when 100 followers are sold at the price of 1.57 euro. Obviously, accounts that follow you then, or who will love your photo will not be true accounts. The machines also allow you to print photos from your Instagram account for 79 cents for both prints, with the option of editing them before printing.

However, the service offered by these distributors is also risky for buyers. Snatap specifies in its conditions of use that the customers are automatically added to the database of the service and that it will send requests to the friends of the customer. "In other words, if you log in with your Instagram account at one of these terminals, it's more than likely that your account will be advertising Snatap customers," Motherboard explains.