There’s an interesting debate going on right now about the power (or lack thereof) of social media as agents of social change, spurred by Malcolm Gladwell’s article in the New Yorker which I recommend reading.

Of course this spurred an immediate response on the internet, but here’s an article that I think summarizes the debate and addresses it in a way that I think makes sense: In short, social media’s great for connecting. But it’s only when you take those connections and build them into actual relationships away from social media that they become meaningful.