Social media still being derided despite rallies...

A sort of jaded look at social media and political organizing from The Torontoist.

Digital Grassroots Puts Harper on Notice

If a poll were taken to assess the attitudes of Canadians, even the politically engaged, in the days and weeks before the January 23 anti-prorogation demonstrations, the results probably wouldn't be that flattering. Perhaps "failure" is an unfairly strong word, but to many, the predicted outcome of several weeks' organizing was an anticlimax, an end to which some less-than-faithful optimists found themselves resigned...

Well, at least the interviewed GTA CAPP's own Walied Khogali.

So when the time comes to organize, does that mean Canadians will rally as passively as they consume? Walied Khogali, who helmed much of the weekend's anti-prorogation action, doesn't think so. "With regards to the acccusations of 'slacktivism,'" he told Torontoist, "I believe Canadians have proven the pundits and cynics wrong. Saturday's turnout illustrates that. Only four thousand folks confirmed on Facebook that they [would] be attending that rally. I think on Saturday that number was tripled.