Individual' social media identity profiles gender daffiness: A comparative analysis on facebook users of Afghanistan and Turkey

In this research gender has been evaluated in the context of social media and fake identity by Facebook users between Afghanistan and Turkey. Thus in the thesis, Afghanistan is considered as a traditional society and Turkey as an advanced society. Societies and community values play an important role in establishing the identities of people living in society at all times and everywhere. Therefore, the differences in society are determined first. People in traditional societies are living with family and local cultures. As a result, any change affecting the societies in the traditional countries is not accepted by the public. However, the situation is different in developing countries. In the 21st century, social media was growing in all countries as a supporting tool for process of globalization. Technological developments have caused great changes in people's lives. Initially internet had been reflected as a positive support to the world, but through time it has become evident that some people and organizations started to abuse the newly found technology negatively for manipulating thoughts, lifestyles, cultures, religious beliefs and country status. Therefore, new information technologies have not been useful in everyone's life. Postmodern period started with the development of technologies. Identity concepts have also changed in the new period. One feature of the postmodern period is the sudden change and renewal of identities. Technologies and social media facilitate this identity renewal process. Nowadays, Facebook affects the identities of their users. Virtual identities differ from real identities. Fake accounts in virtual environments have become the focus of most researches. Social media, one of the important reasons of this era's identity crisis, caused big problems in legal terms. With the widespread use of social media, fake identity is used in many countries. Therefore, in this study; the reasons of creating a fake identity on Afghanistan and Turkey, and the effects of gender differences are examined. The research shows the presence of many fake profile users in both countries eventhough the users have a different reasons for using this fake IDs.