Abstract:

In this study, the thoughts of university students over the usage, positive and negative effects of social networking sites are studied comparing the students by considering their demographic features. The research was conducted by using survey method. 6000 students enrolled in Faculty of Education of Çukurova University constitute the research population. And, the analysis comes from 659 of them which represent a sample rate of 11 %. Two different kinds of scale were used to collect data. T test and ANOVA were used for analysis. The findings of the research show that the positive/negative effects of social networking sites over university students display no significant difference according to demographic characteristics. When it comes to the use of social networking sites in educational context significant difference has been seen in favour of the students with lower income. When the student opinions related to the use of social networking sites in educational context is referred to the program, there are also significant differences.