the power of facebook can affect laws?

I think that the article Power of Facebook affects laws by Internet law professor Michael Geist is over-ambitious in its claim.

Sure, he explains one incident where 25,000 people organized on Facebook to interfere with the implementation of unfair copyright reform in Canada--but that is one incident. Plus, I am not sure if that same model can translate into American adolescent political culture.

Although the professor has a point; Facebook is an "incredibly effective and efficient took that can be used to educate and galvanize grassroots advocacy, placing unprecedented power into the hands of individuals."

But just because it CAN be all that and a bag of potato chips, doesn't mean that it IS. In fact, despite the potential and undoubted success for a minority of cases, I doubt that Facebook will ever amount to anything so mind-blowing, because groups and causes are just like anything else in American culture--crap that sits on the shelf of complacent people.

Except now the shelf is a virtual profile page. Plus, the people who are politically active on Facebook to any impressive degree likely were already so without Facebook.

Until there is a massive overhaul in our political culture, Facebook will never affect change on a profound level.