Millenials built the tools that this generation is using to create such a quick call to action (and we built these on the shoulders of tech giants, Gen X, boomers, etc who pioneered computers/apps and helped us to democratize them). Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, etc. They bring up 9/11 in this article. I have IRC logs from efnet channels on 9/11. We were 15-16 and hardly anyone used AIM/ICQ/IRC back then. I was on AIM/IRC/ICQ for YEARS before any of my classmates even found out what it was or their parents actually got them internet service. I'm incredibly proud of what they're accomplishing but when I was growing up nobody used the internet for more than porn, Encarta or writing a history report.

Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003 was the first 24 hour news coverage I ever experienced. We didn't have this stuff piped into our homes, our phones, or dogpile searches or Facebook feeds or anything else like what's going on now. We didn't have twitter feeds or reddit or anything feeding news to us every minute. We were in the dark. You had to wait for the news to take over whatever show was playing with an emergency news update or to hear about a story from your friends long after it happened.

Things are completely different now.

We weren't politically intelligent. We had to search out politics. It wasn't injected into our social feeds minute after minute.

My parents are boomers, my siblings are X'ers, this freedom of information, ubiquity of open knowledge and expectation of transparency is a direct result of the work the millenials have done to progress things from what we inherited.

We could've been more politically firebrand. We weren't. But we also didn't know 1/1000th of what everyone knows now on a day to day basis.