Stopping the NSA or changing Wall Street requires significant political power and cooperation, stopping Facebook from snooping on you requires individuals to stop using a website and maybe install a browser extension.
They're not comparable at all.
I'd love to see some kind of reporting/study on why on average the general public does not respond to events you mention like Snowden/Manning/OWS/Bank Bailout and others. I mean at one point in time social movements in the US got things done like Temperance Movement, Womens Voting Rights, Civil Rights Movement etc...
Maybe there is a larger narrative here that I'm missing, like each of these things are part of the anti-corporate movement or something.
http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/277843-snowden-revel...
People aren't "too busy" to waste a lot of time on Facebook. If anything, tight time constraints would make people not use Facebook in the first place.
But this time it's not just people, it's political parties and whole countries that are being affected.