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In social media environments, which offer new opportunities for individuals to build identity, manage identity and manage social relationships, individuals are now able to more easily emphasize their images in front of the audience or the community, and they can enhance their presentations of self, especially through photos. Gravity in this sense is considered a kind of means of communication and can be carried as a means for personal image presentations of university students who use technology more frequently and effectively. In this context, this study aims to reveal the tendencies and causes of the students who are learning from a distance in Turkey to make the quotations and share these photographs on social media. In addition, the research aims to reveal the thoughts of those who don’t or don’t share on any social sharing network, though they do or do. For these purposes, the sample of the research was created by 3112 university students who studied at the Anatolian University School of Open Education and participated voluntarily in the study. In the study, a survey form consisting of 3 sections was used as a data collection tool. The survey form contains already selectively asked questions with the aim of determining the demographic information of the participants, the reasons for making the query and sharing it on social networks; the user’s reasons for making the query are included in the open end question. In the study in which quantum and qualitative methods work together, the analysis of quantum data has taken advantage of identifying statistics. Qualitative data is interpreted by visual analysis into categories. According to the data obtained in this context, the reason why users make the most virtue is to show themselves with different face expressions and thus to have fun; the reason why virtue is made is grouped to protect the image that they possess, to review the impressions/how they see others, to criticize the system, to find contrary to social morality.

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