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Education  \nMuhammet Demirbilek  \nSuleyman Demirel University, Turkiye,  [https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7448-9206](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7448-9206)  \nAbstract: This study examines secondary school students’ purposes for using social media and their attitudes towards its use. Conducted with 60 students from Iyas Selcuklu Secondary School in Isparta, Turkey, the research used a survey to gather data on social media habits, including usage frequency, time spent, and preferred platforms. Findings reveal that social media is primarily used for sharing photos, music, and entertainment, with significant differences in usage patterns based on gender and socioeconomic status. Male students were found to use social media more frequently than female students, while those with higher incomes reported greater access and longer usage durations. The most popular social media platforms among participants were Instagram and Facebook. The study also suggests that social media has become integral to students' lives, influencing daily habits and providing an online environment for socialization. These findings highlight the growing role of social media in adolescents' lives and underline the need for guidance on responsible usage, particularly as social media usage continues to rise among young people. Recommendations include integrating social media literacy into educational curricula to help students develop healthy, balanced usage patterns.  \nKeywords: Social media, Secondary education, Usage patterns, Student attitudes, Social media literacy  \nCitation: Demirbilek, M. (2025) . Social Media Attitudes and Purposes Among Adolescents: Exploring Digital Engagement in Secondary Education. In M. S. Ozturk, M. Unal & M. L. Ciddi (Eds.), Proceedings of ICEMST 2025--International Conference on Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology (pp. 9-20), Antalya, Turkiye. ISTES.  \nIntroduction  \nWhen we say social media, one of the first words that comes to mind is sharing. Social media is an online network platform that allows people to communicate, and allows us to be in real time with one or more individuals in different communication channels (Kaban, 2021a, 2021b; Ozturk & Ozturk, 2022) . Since the day humanity came into being, communication has been the greatest and most important need of people. The element of curiosity in people, the desire to prove themselves to society, the desire to learn what other people do and compare them to their own lifestyle and to show themselves higher than where they are at that moment are among the basic characteristics that make a person human. Based on this situation, people have invested in communication technology for centuries. When we look at the history of communication, in Web 1.0 technology, people were only receiving information, that is, reading it. With Web 2.0, mutual communication over the internet, network sharing, in short, people started to be able to do many things that they can do in their  \ndaily lives in a virtual world. When we observe today's internet tools, we see that social media applications attract more attention from people. Social media pages and applications, social media tools, sharing platforms have an effect on people that cannot be ignored. The fact that social media provides individuals with the opportunity to express themselves and reveal their preferences in an online environment makes it different and popular (Evans, 2008) .  \nThe first step taken towards popularizing these opportunities and people was the online social networking site known as [sixdegrees.com. With the](sixdegrees.com. With the) establishment of Facebook in 2004, social media and communication took on a different dimension. In the master's thesis titled “Web 2.0 and Virtual Socialization: The Facebook Example” conducted by Ergenç (2011), it was concluded that 59% of the participants spent more time than usual o","cbCaiarFrEMWzzBK","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiarFrEMWzzBK","pdf",369654,"English","# Abstract\n# Introduction\n## Research purpose and questions","[{\"question\":\"What is the study’s main focus?\",\"answer\":\"The study investigates secondary school students’ purposes for using social media and their attitudes toward its use.\"},{\"question\":\"How was the data collected and from whom?\",\"answer\":\"The study surveyed 60 students from Iyas Selcuklu Secondary School in Isparta, Turkey, collecting data on usage frequency, time spent, and preferred platforms.\"},{\"question\":\"What factors influence social media usage patterns in the findings?\",\"answer\":\"Usage patterns differ by gender and socioeconomic status: male students use social media more frequently, while higher-income students report greater access and longer usage durations.\"}]","Social Media Attitudes and Purposes Among Adolescents - Exploring Digital Engagement in Secondary Education | PDF",1792053916]