The research of the level of social media addiction of university students

Authors : Mehmet Ali GAZİ, Muharrem ÇETİN, Caner ÇAKI

Pages : 549-559

Doi:10.24289/ijsser.279705

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Publication Date : 2017-02-02

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Nowadays, social media has become an indispensable part of our daily lives. Although there are many useful applications of social media, the excessive use of this medium led to live personal, social and occupational problems. With these problems, it began to lead social media addiction which describes as a new kind of addiction. ın this regard, the survey will be applied 350 students who study at communication faculty of ınonu university through social media selected via simple random sampling online via social media to measure social media addiction. The aim of the study is to identify whether there is a statistically significant differentiation between social media addiction levels of users; according to gender, age and educational situation, daily social media use time and tool used to connect to social media.
Keywords : Social media, addiction, scale