TÜRKİYAT ARAŞTIRMALARI DERGİSİ  255 Facebook Addiction among University Students in Turkey: “Selcuk University Example” Türkiye’de Üniversite Öğrencileri Arasında Facebook Bağımlılığı: “Selçuk Üniversitesi Örneği” Şükrü BALCI* Abdülkadir GÖLCÜ  ABSTRACT In the last five years Facebook has started to take an important part of people’s daily life as the result of developments in communication technologies. Nowadays so many scholars from communication studies accept Facebook as a mass communication media that provides people to reach so much kind information and also it provides people to communicate with their social contacts. Beside these additions, people have a great time and fun by using Facebook. However; beside its benefits to social and personal life of users, it is undeniably true that Facebook has some negative effects for its users because of heavy and aimless usage. Definitely the most important of these problems is Facebook Addiction. It is so common especially among teenag- ers. Facebook Addiction also makes teenagers experience problems and erosions in their social life and relations. This survey focuses on Facebook Addiction among university students. Ac- cording to data taken by 903 students from Selcuk University; %5.1 of the students is addicts and %22.6 of the students is in the risky group. According to these results, it can be clearly said that %27.7 of participants is problematic Facebook users. It was revealed by this survey that there is a meaningful relation between Facebook operating time of participants and loneli- ness level of participants with Facebook Addiction level. Moreover, it was seen that Facebook Addictions of participants differentiate according to their Facebook usage purposes. • ANAHTAR KELİMELER Social networks, Facebook, addiction, university students. • ÖZET Son yıllarda iletişim alanında yaşanan teknolojik gelişmelerin bir sonucu olarak Facebook, bireylerin yaşamlarının önemli bir parçası olmaya başlamıştır. Bugün birçok iletişim uzmanı- na göre Facebook; insanların ihtiyaç duyduğu birçok bilgiye ulaşmalarına, eğlenceli ve hoşça * Assoc. Prof. Dr., Selcuk University Communication Faculty, TURKEY, sukrubalci@selcuk.edu.tr  Research Assistant, Selcuk University Communication Faculty, TURKEY, kadirgolcu@selcuk.edu.tr