This draft communicates a slightly different feeling, much more coherently, and is a substantial improvement in every literary sense over the last draft.

Young people may at the moment be mistaking social media activity for political activism, but this is hardly the first generation over the last several thousand in which young people mistook socializing for working. Political movements are disciplined organizations of free volunteers, in our society; the conflicts inherent in that composition are what they are.

All sorts of political organizations are learning to use network interactions in order to collect information about potential allies and organization workers. Polls, emails requesting advice or action, social media participation campaigns—these may not be activism, but they are activities that help organizations maintain contact, and recruit.

So I wonder again about the stage at which feeling gives way to a determination to inquire. You are quick to deplore, but your particular role (because you have chosen to be a lawyer rather than a social worker, for example) may be to create mechanisms on a different scale than those that activists themselves, unaided, cannot reach.