In part, slacktivism is what happens when the energy of otherwise dedicated activists is wasted on approaches that are less effective than the alternatives.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You can make the case that slacktivism is important because it makes people feel affiliated to a movement and be part of it, and talk about it.
Activists are generally doers - rather than watching television and thinking about the world they will put there energies into doing something 'active' to change the (political) situation.
There's a big difference between charity and between activism and philanthropy. They're very different things and I think, you know, everybody should find a passion or a cause that they can really get behind, but it has to be organic.
It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals.
There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
Slack is gratifying to work on in the same way that Flickr was. The mission is to make people's working lives simpler, more pleasant, more productive.
There's a lot that's wrong with the way we work - bad habits that develop around control of information, people hoarding information as a means of preserving their own power. When you're using Slack, everyone can see what's going on because the default mode is public.
The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.
The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar.
Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.