ABSTRACT
This study is about the change of social life and social media experiences of a sample chosen from the Imam and Preacher School (IPS) between 2011-2016. The method of this study is ethnographic based upon a longitudinal research; in the first stage there has been 30 interviews with the students of prominent three IPS in Istanbul, in 2011. In the second stage, in 2016, the research has been renewed with the different students and is composed of 60 interviews. The research looks at the social impact of being an IPS student, besides how these students use the social media and manifestation of this social belonging in the social media. In the previous five years, there have been some changes in education level, numbers of IPS, demography of students, coeducation and the coefficients for the university applying. In this process of change, what come forward in terms of the social life of IPS students, is a tendency among them in defining