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With the rapidly increasing technology, the purpose and usage tools of today’s people are changing. The use of this changing technology responds to our needs and raises other problems. In this study, the relationship between social media addiction status and smartphone addiction status of university students was investigated. In this study, the relationship between social media addiction and smartphone addiction of university students will be tried to be revealed. This research was carried out by using a relational scanning model to determine the relationship between social media addictions and smartphone addictions. The study group consists of 270 university students studying at a university in Northern Cyprus. It was found that the scores of the students participating in the study from the Social Media Addiction Scale and the Virtual Tolerance and Virtual Communication subscale scores and the scores obtained from the Smart Phone Addiction Scale were statistically significant. It was found that there was a statistically significant difference between the scores obtained from the social media addiction scale and the sub-dimensions of the scale according to the internet access of the students.

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