Abstract:

With the spread of the internet throughout the world, the structure of communities and in the daily life of individuals, the technologies and web applications related to the internet come to us as an effective tool. In every area that the Internet networks can access, users can follow the agenda, be interested in their commercial transactions and get to the applications to vote for themselves. As individuals can do their daily jobs through the web, they need to research the internet and social media. Social media, which has reached enormous masses around the world in recent times, is a alternative source of satisfaction to meet a number of individual needs. In fact, this study was basically trying to measure the satisfaction that students of the University of Istanbul Theological Faculty obtained from social media tools. In this sense, some findings have been obtained by the survey data collection method by accepting the assumptions of the "Us and Doyums" approach developed under the leadership of Elihu Katz. This study revealed comparable data on the motivations that directed the use of social media and the satisfaction obtained from this use. 6 satisfaction and motivation (factors) that individuals get from the use of social media. These factors are classified as social escape, information, leisure/playing, supervision and expression, economic benefit and social interaction. It has also found that the frequency of individuals’ internet use, social media use experience, the geography and gender variables that the users have grown are causing differences in the points of satisfaction obtained from social media use. It has been found that the social media tools that individuals use are also causing differences in the points of satisfaction they obtain.

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