There was an interesting article I read a few months ago that observed that the ease of communication that the internet provides has actually crippled movements

There was an interesting article I read a few months ago that observed that the ease of communication that the internet provides has actually crippled movements for social change. In the past building the infrastructure to coordinate and communicate to a movement was difficult, and you had to master that before you could manage a big attention-grabbing protest. You needed leaders, cohesive ideas, and a plan; and you needed them first. That meant that those movements had the staying power to get things done. Today? People organize massive protests spontaneously on Facebook and Twitter, based on the emotions of the moment, and get tons of attention. Then the members are forced to confront the question of "what next?" in an uncoordinated and leaderless way, and all the energy fades away.