This paper has implications on pedagogy and on content delivery in the post-secondary level explores, through the use of a framework, commonalities between adult learning characteristics and social media affordance, and from this hypothesize that social media can be effective in teaching and learning. While there have been very limited studies of the educational computing literature to analyze the research trends since the early emergence of educational computing technologies, the authors argue that it is important for both researchers and educators to understand the major, historical educational computing.