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Because social networks are an integral part of everyday life and are widely used throughout the day, the importance of social networks is increasing. In particular, social networks are seen by young people as a new means of socialization. This is why individuals intend to build new friendship through social networks. Some of the established friendships can end in the real world, while some can end in social networks, which are part of the virtual world, for various reasons. The purpose of this research is to reveal the elements that influence Facebook users to stay friends with people they don’t know or to get them out of friendship. First of all, imaginary Facebook accounts are created. The application was carried out on the students of Aksaray University. The profile photo of imaginary accounts, the gender, the relationship between the study at the same university and the relationship status and the user's friendship behavior. Also, the differences in the behavior ofining friendship were analyzed according to the demographic characteristics of participants. When the results were studied, it was found that male users had a higher rate of friendship than female users. However, the requesting account’s gender, profile photo, education and relationship status have not been found to have an impact on the participant’s friendship behavior. It is also another finding that the demographic differences of participants have no influence on friendship behavior. The findings obtained are parallel to the related literature

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