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The 21st century is the world of technology where most people do not even imagine their life without technology. The growth and popularity of social media has created a new world of collaboration and communication. Social networking sites refer to various applications, websites or new online media that allows large numbers of individuals to share their information and develop a proper social and specialized contact. These sites emphasize the creation of a connection between people to enable them to share their interests. More than a billion individuals around the world are connected and networked together to create, collaborate, and contribute their knowledge and wisdom. Teenagers, especially students also engage in social media whether to use it as a platform to seek for new information or connect with their friends. Despite the importance of social media, it also brings the drawbacks to those who misuse this technology Therefore, this paper aims to discuss the awareness of Social Media among student-teachers and to find whether there is any significant differences with respect to gender, locality and type of management of colleges. The research design is of normative survey method and the sampling technique used for the study is stratified random sampling. Keeping in view the aim of the study, 440 student-teachers from B.Ed students belonging to government, government aided and self finance colleges of education in the Chennai district were randomly selected. Further, it is observed that male student-teachers have high social media awareness when compared to female student-teachers and rural locale student-teachers have high social media awareness when compared to urban locale student-teachers. It is further inferred that student-teachers of government colleges of education had exhibited high social media awareness than student-teachers of government aided colleges of education and then followed by self finance colleges of education. In the modern world, we need to develop the awareness of social media among student-teachers in the colleges of education because today's student-teachers are going to be future teachers, who are responsible to monitor, regulate and shape the future generations.