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True, the youth and their social media networks did play significant a part. Even if they didn't turn out to save the Middle East as optimistic Western liberals thought they would they did have their impact. The perception of the Egyptian revolution as a liberal youth movement was mainly why Obama left Mubarak out to dry(he famously said about Egypt in 2011 that "I want the kids on the street to win and I want the Google guy to become president").Without taking this thread more off-topic I agree with your main points here. Especially how the Arab Spring was painted in Western media as a "new generation" reshaping the region; they would be the drivers of a new "western-friendly" Middle East. I mean Egypt is a giant country; the middle class of Cairo can't represent the interests of the entire population. There is a chasm between Istanbullus and the cities of eastern Turkey just like there is a clash of interests between different parts of America.
That said it's a bit unfair to not aknowledge this aspect as it was in many ways driven by youth who was tired of corruption and lack of opportunities where social media, with it's quick spread of information, played an essential part. Then again I agree with you about its drawbacks, established movements like MB certainly capitalised on the lack of cohesion of the protest movements(the voter turnout was very sad also). I shall keep on being optimistic.
If the Egyptian Revolution was perceived as a Brotherhood dominated movement there's no way Obama would've abandoned Mubarak so easily. In fact many of his senior advisors at the time advised him not to anyway so the PR of the Arab Spring had an impact in the way the Western powers perceived it and that was driven largely by the youth and social media.