Abstract:

Today, especially among young people, the use of internet is very common. Internet use is mostly preferred in social media. Social media is attracting attention in different fields such as news, communication, education, information sharing and friend tracking. Social media offers people a wide range of space to share their thoughts and acquisitions. In this study, social media dependencies are analyzed by applying a questionnaire in Osmaniye Korkut Ata University students' sample on social media dependencies. In the analysis of the data, descriptive statistical methods, t test for independent samples and one-way analysis of variance were used. 186 students from different departments were employed in the study. In this study, to determine social media addiction levels of secondary school, high school and university students developed by Şahin (2018), exploratory and validator analyzes were conducted within the framework of validity studies, and SMBÖ-YF's five-point Likert type, 4 sub-dimensions (virtual tolerance, virtual communication, virtual problem and virtual knowledge) and a scale consisting of 29 items. In the light of the data obtained, it was determined that students were social media users, but they did not experience social media usage problems at the level of dependency. There were no significant differences in terms of variables such as gender, age, monthly expenditure and the department in which they studied.

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