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The on-going demonstrations taking place in Egypt since January 25 for the sake of regime change as well as a multitude of missing human rights has been organized via Egyptian youth on facebook. The multiple demonstrations across Egyptian cities are mainly covered by citizen journalists who post news, photos, and videos on Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and other social networking sites. Tackling the issue of connectivity and the role of new media in crisis communication, this research argues that social networking websites are nowadays a vital tool for political change in authoritarian countries, due to the state control of conventional media and the lack of credibility that they suffer as a result, as well as the unprecedented level of free media expression that new media offers. Egyptian youth, acting as demonstrators, citizen journalists and witnesses in the meantime, have reflected, in my accounts, a high level of political consciousness, professional journalistic skill and responsibility, in terms of identifying and verifying their resources every time they post news, photos or videos, and a strong willingness to incur change in the most civilized way possible. This research aims at verifying those remarks by conducting a large scale survey amongst facebook users in Egypt, as well as consulting the multitude of news, photos and videos posted throughout the demonstrations and finding out what they entail.