Allison Fine, author of Momentum: Igniting Social Change in the Connected Age, has authored a report for the Case Foundation called Social Citizens about "Millenial" activism.

The paper describes how, "the largest living generation, out-numbering living Baby Boomers 77.6 million to 74.1 million," is changing the meaning of civic engagement with its interactive, collaborative, entrepreneurial and social networked activism. (For purposes of the report, Millenials are defined as people born between 1978-1993).

On the Social Citizens Blog, Fine asks one of the key questions that arose from the report:

Is our tendency to connect only with like-minded people using our online and on land social networks a good thing for activism or a critical bottleneck to the effective scaling for causes?

Marnie Webb, TechSoup's Co-CEO who was interviewed for the report, asks a question along the same lines,

"What, if anything, does all of the clicking, blogging, and 'friending' add up to in the end?”

What do you think?

Is Online Activism Good for Social Change?

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