According to the report 2025 Türkiye created by We Are are Social and Meltwasser, there are 77.3 million active internet users in Türkiye. This corresponds to 88.3 percent of the population, while this shows that 9 out of 10 people in Türkiye are connected to the Internet.
While the number of social media users reached 58.5 million from 2025, this accounts for 66.7 percent of the country's population. In other words, 2 out of 3 people are active on social media platforms.
46.6 percent of users are women and 53.4 percent men. Users spend an average of 7 hours and 13 minutes a day on the Internet and an average of 2 hours and 43 minutes a day on social media. While the number of social media users over the age of 18 is 55.9 million, this shows that 85.5 percent of the population use over 18 years of social media.
Experts evaluated the use of social media in Türkiye and in the world, the psychological effects of this and how much daily time should be limited.
“For children and adolescents, it is impractical to be exposed to a number of content by constantly moving.”
Prof. Dr. ÖSKÜDAR University Faculty of Communication Dr. Gül Esra Atalay explained that the use of social media in Türkiye is high and its duration is longer. This is the surplus of the young population and the prevalence of mobile devices.
Atalay pointed out that social media has different areas of application such as entertainment, communication, connection, social relationships, visible and information or information, and emphasized that users who want to be visible and monitored want to be visible in Türkiye and that the use of Tikok among young people quickly increases.
Atalay said that Atalay, when he was aware of the knowledge that social life was aware, was conscious and relationships were built up, useful aspects of social media. Social media is used for very long hours of harmful pages of the transfers of the broadcasts atalay, increases the cognitive burden on the person, which exposes too much information, notifications that cause distraction and mental fatigue. This applies to both adults and children, he said.
Prof. Dr. Atalay is constantly spending time on social media without looking for information without exposing a series of content by constantly moving, especially for children and young people, especially when there are long hours, he added.
Atalay explained that they see that children have to spend more time for school and games in physical life, and said that they spent time on social media: “First of all, this means of inactivity. he said.
Atalay pointed out that the child is constantly exposed to a series of stimuli on social media and that it represents its own identity with taste and different interpretations. If it has returned from social media, the development of identity can always be negatively influenced.
“Social media account under the age of 13 and the use of social media should be very limited”
Atalay, “How many hours of social media should be used per day?” Since there is not a single answer to the question, the person, life and what is concerned with what they can change, social media are also used for professional purposes, and in this case people can exist much longer. But for children, the use of social media should be very limited before a certain age. “He said.
In reality, however, this is not the case, children with other names or their age by showing another age in social media channels that exist atalay, said:
“The parents play a very important role here to check the child and restrict their relationship with social media. 'How much should it be?' If you ask, it is possible to say that it can be described as problematic, but it is possible to say that it is on social media.
Prof. Dr. Atalay emphasized that social media channels are commercial structures and that users try to be kept here with different algorithms.
“It is very important to implement the filter system on social media”
The specialized clinical psychologist Özgenur Taşkın, the time spent on social media is very valuable by making some restrictions on these channels useful, he said.
Taşkın pointed out how important it is, why social media is used and said:
“The filter system is very important. The filter system does not bring us into uncertainty. We use social media to spend time? Especially among young people and adolescents. We see this very much. We can only use young people and young people to spend time to spend time, there are young people, young people, unfortunately.
Taskin pointed out that the use of social media has a good influence on psychology to use it as a waste of time, follow trends and use shopping through shopping, said it is important to raise awareness of children through their families.
Flood, personality structure in the formation of young people and young people in the unconscious use of social media can cause negativity such as depression, anxiety and body awareness disorders.
“The use of social media in Türkiye is determined as an average of 3 hours.”
Taşkın explained that the use of social media is high all over the world and that Türkiye is at the beginning of the ranking:
“The duration of the use of social media should be limited. It is impossible for us to maintain the efficiency of unlimited. It should be limited and structured. The use of social media in Türkiye is determined than 3 hours a day. It is a very serious figure to share 3 hours of 24 hours into social media.
Flood, 3 hours on the day of social media is the dependency dimension that says that it can achieve serious dimensions, he said.
Pressing that practices such as digital detoxification and social media are also advantageous, sleepless and social media that use the social media sufficiently to fall back on the person or not to eat if the person was warned against social media addiction, he should be supported in this case.
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