This document provides a summary of the history and evolution of social media and its pedagogical challenges. It traces the origins of computing from the 1940s through early networking in the 1960s-1970s. Key developments include the creation of the Internet in the 1980s, the World Wide Web in the early 1990s, and the rise of user-generated content and social networks in the 2000s. The document discusses both optimism about new opportunities for learning and connection as well as concerns around issues like privacy, control of information, and the potential for social media to be distracting or "infantilizing." It concludes by considering challenges around knowledge versus opinions, truth over time, and maintaining formality and criticism in an online