We live in an increasingly globalized and digitized world where young people spend significant time on social media. This brings both opportunities and challenges. This paper explores, through a scoping review, how social media literacy can be used as a strategy to address these challenges. Research on social media literacy is synthesized and analyzed from a didactic perspective to better understand how social media literacy relates to various dimensions of social studies education. The result highlights several reasons why teachers should integrate social media literacy into their teaching and identifies specific skills that young people need to navigate and interact on social media platforms safely and responsibly. Additionally, the literature´s perspectives on methods for teaching social media literacy and evaluating learning and teaching are presented. Based on this, a number of practical suggestions are discussed for how social media literacy can be integrated into social studies education.