Abstract:

The use of social media, which continues to increase rapidly with the development of the internet, has started to affect our daily life in different ways. Social media, where its positive and negative effects are constantly discussed, has become a set of tools that are among the daily routines of people and the number of people who use it is constantly increasing. With this increase, different transformations have been experienced in individuals, and in particular, interpersonal communication has led to the transfer of intra-family communication to digital environments. In this study, based on the relationship between the individual and technology, the differentiation of domestic communication among the 356 students who continue their education in different grade levels in four secondary education institutions in Hatay province in the spring term of 2018-2019 academic year was investigated. In the research, social media and family communication scale was used and data were obtained by using face-to-face survey method. As a result of the research, it has been concluded that social media has a 22% effect among the reasons for the decrease in the level of participation of adolescents in the family communication processes, and that there is a decrease in the relationship practices with which physical participation is increased as the usage time of adolescents increases.

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