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 Digital Addiction and Digital Literacy


The increase in internet usage and the increase in the allocated time in the world and in Turkey brings with it some economic, social and cultural problems, as in the history of all technology and human relations.


The rate of use of digital technologies continues to increase day by day and the place they occupy in our daily lives is expanding by gaining critical importance with the rapid development and spread of digital technologies. According to DataReportal's September 2022 report, the number of active social media users has reached 4.62 billion people, making up 58.4% of the world's population. The time for an internet user to be a daily dialer is 7 hours when we look at the world average. In Turkey, there are 69.5 million internet users, which is 82% of the total population by searching 5.9% between 2021-2022, and 68.9 million social media users, which constitute 80.8% of the population with an increase of 14.8%. On the other hand, the daily online time in Turkey reaches an average of 8 hours in the total population.
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