Do social media sites promote or prevent online activism?

Todays blog will focus on the article "Why Social Media is Reinventing Activism." Until I read this article, I did not believe sites such as Twitter or Facebook had much of an impact on anything. I believed that these sites were too full of other people posting random stuff about their lives for an activist to be heard. The article stated that their is a term, "slacktivism," that describes the people on these sites slacking off and procrastinating rather than helping out with a problem. The article also states how a very small percentage of donations were accounted for from social media sites (3.6% for the Red Cross). But the article states how Shawn Ahmed, founder of the uncultured project, describes how people can be inspired to pitch in to what they see online and help out. Ahmed collected donations, promoted through the internet,  for a school in Bangladesh that had been destroyed by a cyclone. The money received help completely rebuild the school. This is just one example of how one person helped solve a problem. With the millions of people that are online, it is apparent that if millions of people spoke out on social media sites,that many more problems in the world could be fixed. The internet is so large and vast that it can help people reach out far beyond their boundaries. The internet also helps people provide more accountability to what their doing so that more people will want to help out. This can be accomplished form providing vidoes and pictures on the actual media sites that show what is going on for the project.