Psychosocial and Social Effects of Social Media


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Engin M. Ç., Seven M. A.

FIDDLEHEAD JOURNAL Peer-Reviewed | Open Access | International Journal Scopus Indexed (2026), cilt.14, sa.5, ss.98-114, 2026 (Scopus)

Özet

The objective of this study is to bring the negative psychological and social effects of using social sharing nets. Problems on a social scale in today’s world show that how functional and effective social networks are. On an individual scale, pscyhological traumas that derived from using social sharing nets can well be observed in visual and printed media. People find it hard to put a limit to their use of social sharing nets but keeps pushing their limits forward. The areas of social and individual approval and denial are completely problem. Social networks encourage the limitlessness in the degeneration of the social structure. However Facebook should not be considered only from the point of negativity.

Social sharing networks encourage individuals to become more free psychologically so that the understanding based upon democracy and human rights would be improved. The main issue here to consider is to have enough information. So it must be more important to know how to do it. One of the significant activity areas of social Networks is perhaps to serve people not only their expectations but also what they would not expect. The real effective aspect is not the expectations which have become real but the realization of what has not been expected.

The data of the study gained by surveys – descriptive- were processed according to the identified variables with statistical methods. In the first section of the study, a field mission was held and a literature scan was performed. By referring back to the previously conducted studies, the methods and techniques were assigned. The objective of the study, problem status, hypothesis and finiteness, problem Question, population and sample, and methods were transferred into a table and thus information is provided in the second section. In the third section, the analyses of the data were performed with the relevant methods. In the fourth section, comments and suggestions were made in concordance with the processed data.