Extreme Digitalization and Its Effects on Individual and Social Life During the Post Corona Pandemic Period

Abstract

It is seen that individuals use digital tools and digital media more than ever, due to the developments of Covid 19 virus worldwide, corona epidemic measures in different dimensions in each country and social distance rules. Within the scope of corona measures, user behaviors and digital habits have started to differentiate and intensify in this extremely isolated process where new living rules are applied. In the global arena, individuals from different ages and socio-economic groups in many different countries have come to share on their social media accounts that they experience problems such as "crammed tracking", excessive online shopping, etc., in the quarantine restrictions. While the use of excessive digital tools and media causes a wide variety of physical and mental illnesses, it also causes visible positive and negative changes in the lives of individuals. The aim of this study is to provide a general view and recommendations for individual and social changes in the context of extreme digitalization during the corona epidemic period.