Socialization and Sharing in the Network Society: An Empirical Research on Facebook

With the pervade of internet and the social networks, people spend most of their times with these new virtual medias.This situation affects the indviduals real lifes and also causes to born new socialization forms. Facebook is a social network which has a rising number of members and sprawling worldwide. Facebook brings a new understanding to the social network concept and reproduces its users. Facebook helps to the indviduals to get in touch with the people who are not near, with the new sociability understanding. With this study social network fact is considered with a theoretical aspect and with survey method it has been determined the membership of the facebook users, using purposes, satisfaction of the facebook users. The obtained data has been transfered to SPSS 16 program and frequency analysis has been performed.