Socıal media use with the context of uses and gratification: A research on Gumushane university

The internet which appears with new concepts and new communication style bringing into daily life also welcomes new distinctive communication styles for our life. Nowadays when internet is mentioned, certain social media sites occurs to the most of people. Moreover,in their virtual lives people generally use the internet only by searching these social media sites. On the other hand people make firends, create the platforms, feed animals in virtual farms, harvest the plants, learn the bithdays of their closest friends, share videos, comments on the photographs of the opposite neighbor that they normally don’t contact with. The aim of this research is to identify gratification obtained by social media that takes place in our lives with its distinctive life style. In this context, an area research has been conductud in order to detect how frequently the academic personnel, admistratative personnel, and students in Gümüşhane University use internet, what their goals of using internet are and how much gratified they feel when they use the internet.