The socialization means and fields of human beings, as social creatures, have evolved throughout the history in accordance with the conditions of the period they live in. These changes have influenced a great many fields such as daily living practices, socialization environments, the people to socialize with and even types of socializations from various aspects. Digital environments accompanied by digital life, which is now an integral and easily accessible part of social life, have facilitated this alteration to a great extent as compared to previous eras. Specifically, the Social media within the digital life has become the source of socialization in the digital life and as it is intensively and commonly used especially by the young generation, thus providing substantial support for the emergence of a new generation called “the network generation”. Embarking upon all these pre-suppositions, the study focuses on the influence of social media in the socialization of network generation, depending on a survey and field analysis on the students of communication faculties at Cumhuriyet, Ege, Erciyes, Fırat, Gazi and Gümüşhane Universities. The study comprises a number of comparative and detailed analyses in accordance with the data gathered including the frequency and level of internet and social media use by the network generation, the status of relationships established via social media and their diversifications and associations in terms of socio-demographical characteristics and some judgments are presented along with their representative attributes for the universe relevant to socialization power of social media.