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The development of Internet technologies has made social media an essential part of our lives. In particular, the personalization of phones and computers has facilitated access to social media platforms. Social media, which is preferred because it offers information, new, photo, file, audio, and many sharing opportunities, is cheap and easily accessible, attracting the attention of the young section even more. However, in addition to the positive features of social media, it also contains negative features. This situation poses some risks, especially for young people. For this reason, this study was conducted to determine the social media disorder levels of students studying at the associate and undergraduate levels of Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, representing young people continuing their university education. In the research using the general screening model, 395 students were reached. An online questionnaire was applied to the students reached by random sampling technique. In the study carried out with the descriptive statistics technique, it was found that students use social media to avoid the most negative emotions related to social media disorder. As a result of the research, it has been found that women's social media disorder levels are higher than men's. In addition, it was concluded that the levels of social media disorder of undergraduate graduates are higher than those of associate degree graduates. It is one of the important findings that students who use social media for less than an hour on average daily have lower levels of social media disorder than students who use social media for more than an hour.

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