assignment 3: interpersonal perspective

(1) Choose one of CMC concepts or theories and explain what it is, (2) Describe one of your interpersonal relationships online, (3) and discuss whether the theory/concept properly explains your experience. If your experience is too unique to be framed by any theory, please justify how preexisting theories cannot frame your experience. If you cannot think of your own experience, you can choose an episode from news story about the online relationship.
Social information processing theory; known as SIP is when people make and maintain good relationships online all the time. The six concepts that shows that this theory is true is:
1. time spent online: the cmc gets more personal, the longer people spend interacting with each other.
2. previous interaction: the relationship history increases feelings of the connection.
3. anticipation of future interaction: chances to interact again increases peoples relational communication in CMC.
4. their expectations and motivations
5. the chronemics: reading time-related messages increase feelings of intimacy and attration.
6. emotions: graphical markers make people feel more expressive and interpersonally connected.
This is just a run down on what classifies the social information processing theory. if any of these classifications relate to what you do on line then this is a theory that will be very familiar to you.
there was one relationship that i did create online when someone wrote me in my honesty box on facebook. i wouldnt call it a relationship we just had a very good conversation. this person messages me and asks me questions that he knew would draw my attention. for example, the question that he asked actually made me want to talk to him because i wanted to know where would he get such a thought. the question was, was i a "player" meaning did i have alot of dudes that i just used and and abused....(hahaha) and that one simple question made me want to see where in heavens name did he get that from; and after that we were talking ever since then. the converstations would get so deep that i felt i was giving up too much information. so i ended the "honesty box" relationship quickly.
the social information processing theory applies to me because i actually did spend time talking to him and actually found my self waiting to see what he had to say after i wrote back to him. i dont feel that i started to have any feelings towards this person because i had no recollection of who he is. so i believe some of the concepts of the social information processing theory applied to me but not all of it.