Internet Addiction And Impulsivity Among University Students
Özet
The progress in technology adds to the new ways of communication
between people. In our age, online communication has taken the
place of face to face communication. People express themselves,
become friends and in a way become who they are through the tools
of social media. Many biological and psychological factors may affect
the choi ce o f people fo r communi ca ting th rough so cial
media. According to the 2016 statistical reports of “We Are Social”,
3,419 billion people are online worlwide. 2,307 billion internet users
are actively using social media. Of the 3790 billion mobile phone
users 1968 billion use their mobile phones for reaching social media.
Turkey has a population of 79,14 million and 46.3 million are online.
42 million of internet users are actively using social media. 36 million
of these users use their mobile phones for social media purposes.