Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
9th International Multi-Conference on Society, Cybernetics and Informatics, IMSCI 2015, Florida, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri, 12 - 15 Temmuz 2015, ss.125-129, (Tam Metin Bildiri)
Internet usage rate increase affected the human behavior especially about technology acceptance and usage. Human memory, learning and storing data styles changed, people started to use online sources almost for everything from maps to appointments, data storage to data search. Now people usually have continues wifi and access to internet almost free on location via their mobile devices. Data search, storing or information comparison is just one dimension of using internet. People are more focused on the internet use compared to former decades about entertainment and socializing. Television networks realized the change to internet broadcasting with offers like "always available in everywhere". Internet, smart phones or mobile devices changed the structure of many businesses and many will follow the mainstream. People can chat, share, create content in different media types from music to video, play games and cluster around some common interest and even form communities. The social networks became a habit of new way of conversation. Checking e-mail, status updates, facebook or twitter becomes a crucial habit, which also transported to smart phones. Especially young population is so used to spend time online, not just work/study purposes but also for leisure, this becomes another part of their life. It is not just an extensive habit but more like and addiction which takes over their lives. It is also defined and accepted as an addictive behavior in psychology. People tend to react absence of internet or mobile connection as a withdraw; and feels missing or empty when they cannot share their lives online through social media. People sometimes can realize that it takes over the control of their time and life, try to control or cut back. They lie about the behavior, or even feel the need to hide or use the social media as a tool to escape from the problems In previous studies the internet connection time was taken as the main indicator of internet devotion. This study is more focused on the heavy user group and tries to define the main behavioral characteristics and discuss if these behavior could indicate the addictive behavior and if it could be prevented.