The Review on the Social Media’s Role on the Process of Making a Value with the Students’ Views

In this study, it was aimed to obtain opinions of secondary school students regarding the role of social media during value formation period. The research was done with the qualitative research method. The research’s participants consist of 30 secondary school students who received their training at the third grade at a secondary school in Ku？？u？k？ekmece in ？stanbul in 2016-2017 educational training years. The criterion sampling method was used in the selection of students. The active social media usages were considered as the criteria. The data was obtained through the compositions that the students were asked to write on the social media and values, in the research. Compositions were analyzed with the descriptive analysis method. At the end of research students stated that using social media disturbs their responsibilities, affects studying as well as decreases loyalty to family and care showing towards guests. They also told that they feel free in social media, get pleasure from nice sharing, fulfill their need of love, increase their feeling of patriotism, sustain their culture by sharing cultural elements and become more sensible about animals. In addition, it was also obtained that students complete their homework by cooperation via social media and get information from social media about many subjects