Social media has crept into many aspects of our daily lives, yet to many it remains a tool to interact with personal friends, rather than professional colleagues. This symposium will highlight how social media can serve our professional interests as psychological scientists. With a set of presenters representing a range of roles and interests, we will guide the audience quickly through the basics of social media (which many are familiar) into a narrative of how the presenters have found social media useful in their professional lives as psychological scientists. We will first present the basic usage and capabilities of three social media networks: Facebook, Twitter and Google+. Since most are familiar with the basic usage and capability of Facebook, we will spend relatively less time on this. For twitter, basic terminology and hashtags (RT, MT, LRT, livetweeting, subtweeting, etc) will be defined as well as some more advanced searching and scheduling capabilities using applications such as Tweetdeck. For Google+, we will discuss how to use circles and hangouts. Next we will present case studies of how social media has been a powerful catalyst for psychological science in the different roles we have as scientists. We will follow a rough organization of research, teaching and service, roughly mirroring the responsibilities that many of us have. We will begin with discussing research findings with fellow scientists. We will present and describe sample scientific discussions on social media, including interactions on Chris Chabris facebook feed as well as twitter interactions including Rolf Zwaan, Deborah Budding, Kelly McGonigal, David Nussbaum, Sanjay Srivastava, Dorothy Bishop and Bobbie Spellman on twitter. We will then follow with how we can improve our teaching through social media, with a community of teachers of psychology. This can be as simple as asking a simple question and getting a quick response and a link from an expert on that area (my example of explaining an illusion) or leading to a longer interaction with someone about syllabus design or other pedagogical decisions. Finally, service and outreach on social media, which includes larger discussions with the general public about your research as well as with smaller groups. This can be in sharing a recent empirical article, reading and discovering new articles in your field, or interacting with other scientists in other fields. Orthogonal to these three dimensions, we will also present stories on how social media can be used in different stages of ones career as a psychological scientist. A student can interact with experts, but also serve in the expert role themselves. A young professor can form a support network of like-minded researchers, but also find support and resources for teaching unfamiliar topics. Experienced senior investigators can serve as online mentors, or spread their research farther than it would have gone before.