Have an account profile, social network, and content stream, to support self-presentation, social mobilization, and social connection (ellison & boyd, 2013 ) in the united states, approximately 72% of young adults are active on social media (auxier & anderson, 2021 ). autism spectrum dis- order (asd) is characterized by challenges in social com- munication and the presence of restricted and repetitive interests and behaviors (american psychiatric association, ). in congruence with published suggestions for autism researchers to avoid ableist language (bottema-beutel et al., ), identity-first language (“autistic adult”) is used within this study as opposed to person-first (“adult with autism”) or mixed-language. autistic people may have challenges with face-to-face social interactions as well as broader difficulties around core social skills competencies (silveira-zaldivara et al., ), including interpreting the social intent of others and knowing which skills to utilize within specific contexts (hanley et al., 2015 ). research on social networking sites (snss) are web-based platforms that allow users to engage with others in real time or asyn- chronously using computer-mediated communication for the purpose of generating and maintaining social connec- tions (bayer et al., 2020 ). a subclass of snss are consid- ered social media applications, which are applications that