There in the final pages of Tweets from Tahrir one of the participants in the 2011 Egyptian revolution catalogs all the skills he's picked up over a couple of weeks of active nonviolent protest, things like how to catch and throw back a gas canister. On a nearby page, another writer notes that they have gotten rid of a dictator but something more difficult remains to be done: establishing a healthy democracy, with functioning civic institutions such as courts, free press, legislature, police, schools. Entirely different skill set. That's an important insight for fans of social media--protest, saying no, affiliating in public places, these kinds of things may come more quickly to social media users than the work of creating institutions and traditions that hold up for awhile.