Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Journal of Pedagogical Sociology and Psychology, cilt.4, sa.1, ss.1-19, 2022 (Scopus)
Social networks are platforms that have entered our lives together with the development of web 2.0 technologies, with millions and even billions of users. In response to many positive aspects, the safe use of social networks, including some threats and risks, is an important issue for the individual, institutional and national safety. This study is to investigate the level of safe social network usage of teacher candidates and to demonstrate whether the status of using secure safe networking varies according to demographic variables. The study group consisted of teacher candidates from a state university, Faculty of Education in Turkey. The survey model was used in this study. According to the findings obtained from the analyses, half of the teachers' candidates use social network around 1-3 hours average per day. The aim of using social networks is to communicate and chat with their friends at the very beginning. The behavior of the teachers who participate in the study is the use of safe social networking behaviors at a high level.