The current study sought to review previous studies in order to identify the most important security challenges associated with the use of social media, and to explore the extent to which there is a relationship between the spread of cybercrime and the increase in social media usage rates, and to clarify possible national solutions and procedures to confront cybercrime. The study used the qualitative approach in data collection and analysis, and a sample of (104) previous studies were selected that were published in four main databases: IEEE, Springer, Google scholar and Dar AlMandumah during the period from 2015 to 2022, in addition to the official statistics and reports. The results of the analysis of previous studies revealed that the most important security challenges associated with the use of social media is the spread of electronic crimes of all kinds, and they have been divided into three categories: 1) Traditional challenges; they included spam attack, malware attack, phishing, identity theft, 2) Recent challenges; they included cross-site scripting attack, Profile cloning attack, hijacking, Inference attack, sybil attack, Clickjacking, de-anonymization attack, and cyber espionage, 3) Targeted attacks; they included cyber-bullying, cyber-grooming, and cyber-stalking. The results also concluded that social media contributed to the increase in security challenges, and that there is a correlation between cybercrime and the increase in social media usage rates. As indicated by the results; there are three solutions to reduce the social media»s security challenges and they complement each other as follows: solutions for social network operators, academic solutions, and national solutions. As for Oman, it has made great strides in the field of cybersecurity; a number of measures have been taken to prevent and combat cybercrime. Finally, the study recommended the security authorities to increase the degree of security awareness by educating the public through social media platforms. Also, establishing specialized units to combat cybercrime, such as the electronic police.