The impacts of social media on university students in Turkey
7th European Conference on Social Media, ECSM 2020 -- 2 July 2020 through 3 July 2020 -- -- 165515 ; 2-s2.0-85097783203 ; Today we live in a world of a technological revolution. One of the most was the virtual world represented by social media platforms, where it took the largest part of our daily life in many areas. Therefore, we tried in this study to shed light through the work of a questionnaire on a group of university students here in Turkey to find out the extent of their use of social media in many areas and discuss their results, and the areas we chose are the general, academic, political and commercial implications taking into account the diversity in the demographic variables of students in Universities who were from three universities (Altinbas University and Marmara University, both in Istanbul and Karabuk University), and a different number of universities were chosen to obtain a different selection between nationalities and genders in university students where the universities were chosen from us S spatial, social and culturally different. Initially, this study was carried out through an online questionnaire, which was published through a link through the university's website for the University of Altinbas and through WhatsApp groups and e-mail at the universities of Marmara and Karabuk. Where the questionnaire consisted of (40) questions and the answers were of type a multiple-choose through which we tried to cover the most common uses of university students in many of the social media covered by the questionnaire were Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, and blogs. It became clear to us in the results that Facebook is the most popular and used in all categories with notable progress for YouTube in the academic utility and good progress for Twitter in political sharing. Initially, we faced great challenges because participation in the questionnaire was somewhat weak, which required us to distribute questionnaires Paper to ensure an increase in the number of participants, who totaled (121), distributed as follows: (50) members at the University of Altinbas, (38) participants from the University of Marmara and (33) participants from the University of Karabuk. © European Conference on Social Media, ECSM 2020.