That youth are connected to these global online communities is both a frightening prospect for parents and educators and an intriguing area for social science research. For example, educators and parents in the United States face difficult quandaries concerning students and SNS. Many scholars suggest that students learn in new ways using social media and that educators should embrace these newplatforms (Ito et al., 2009; Jenkins, 2006). Nevertheless, most school districts block access to SNS (Lemke, Coughlin, Garcia, Reifsneider, & Baas, 2009), while parents remain fearful about safety and effects on their children’s social development. Teenage youth are a unique population of SNS users. They are among the first to have grown up entirely surrounded by communication technologies. Teenagers are also in a period of rapid development, growth, and maturation. Research about social media effects on youth promises to contribute significantly to the concerns of adults who mediate access to these online communities.