Heck, I spend way too much time on Ebay scrolling for things I’ll never buy so I get mindless activity as a hobby! But kids think in very binary terms- if it’s not an official HS club with a president, it’s not an activity or EC. If you didn’t get a citizenship award from the mayor, you don’t have any civic activities to talk about.
But there are kids volunteering and doing positive stuff in their communities every day-- and that’s ok too.