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With the advanced technology, social media applications that enter the human life have found a widespread use. These applications, which are expected to facilitate communication, have become an environment where information about the personal life of a person is shared over time. It can be said that private content shared for purposes such as becoming more visible, liking and increasing the number of followers may violate the privacy of the individual over time. This negative situation affects many people, as it affects students studying at the Faculty of Theology. The study examined the perceptions of the privacy of the students of the Faculty of Theology on social media. For this purpose, students were addressed to the levels of awareness of their own privacy, disclosure, monitoring awareness and responses to privacy violations. In the study used the visual research model, the sample group consists of students studying at the Faculty of Theology of the Republic of Sivas University. In the study that students’ privacy awareness is above the average, the other dimensions are at the average level or below. On the other hand, according to the findings concerning independent samples, no significant difference has been detected in the observation, awareness, reaction, and other awareness factors, except for the exposure factor, according to the type of connection of participants.

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