The document said that social communications can offer three principle opportunities and challenges to the the Church and to the world at large:

• Visibility
• Community and
• Accountability

Furthermore, the USCCB said social media can offer increased visibility, a tool to strengthen the community and accountability. Among other things, Church groups are instructed to define boundaries of appropriate communication for their site, include a code of conduct on the site, and provide instruction to users on how to report inappropriate material and block offensive users. When providing links to other website church groups are instructed to provide links to trusted website and be familiar with what is on those sites. For the full list of guidelines visit www.usccb.org/comm and click on diocesan resources.