Analyzing the relationship between internet usage time and social media usage levels of secondary education students and students' socialization levels

The unstoppable development of social media has brought along many studies on the subject in different fields. Students constitute the samples of most of these studies. Within the scope of this study, the relationship between social media usage levels and socialization level of high school students was examined. The study consists of six parts. Within the scope of the study, issues related to social media and socialization were primarily included. In this context, topics related to social media, the definition and history of the internet, the development process of social media, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIN, forums, blogs and dictionaries from social networks were discussed. In the study, "Personal Information Form", "Socialization Level Scale" and "Social Media Usage Level" were used to collect data. Frequency, mean, t test, ANOVA and Simple Linear Regression analysis were performed for the purposes of addressing the data obtained with data collection tools. . As the data showed normal distribution, Independent-T Test, One Way Anova, Post Hoc Tukey Test were used in comparing the two groups. At the end of the study, the total score average of the Socialization Level Scale was 43.31 ± 6.12 and the average score of the Socialization Level Scale was 29.77 ± 10.3. As a result of the study, it was observed that the duration of internet use of male participants was higher than that of female participants, and that social media usage level, socialization level and internet usage time did not differ significantly according to the working status of the mother and father. Social media usage level, socialization level and internet usage duration do not show a significant difference due to internet presence at home, there is no significant difference in socialization level depending on the school type variable, but there is a significant difference between science high school students and vocational high school students in social media usage level. a difference has been observed. Again, in terms of internet usage, it was determined that Anatolian high school students spent a lot of time between the students of anatolian high schools and vocational high schools. It was observed that the level of social media usage and socialization level did not differ significantly according to the income level, however, there was an increase in the duration of internet usage among the students of families with high income levels. Although the level of social media usage and socialization level depending on the mother's education level do not show a significant difference, it is seen that the students of high school graduates stay on the internet more than the illiterate students in terms of internet usage time. There is no significant difference in the education status of the father. Participants who use the internet for e-mail and chat purposes have longer internet usage time. It is seen that students who connect to the Internet with their mobile phones have higher social media usage levels. It was concluded that students who connect to the Internet from Internet cafes and schools spend more time on the Internet than those who connect from other channels. It is observed that as the duration of Internet use increases, the level of socialization decreases, and as the level of social media use increases, the level of socialization decreases.