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Internet communication is sometimes vastly different from FtF communication
Online disinhibition effect
You're in an online meeting and everyone quickly agrees on something that you don't agree with. But, you go with it anyways, and end up agreeing.
Groupthink
A negative response to the actual, imagined, or expected emotional or sexual involvement of the partner with someone else.
Jealousy
[This is an affordance of online communication that can make it easier to ask embarrassing questions to gain support.] You enter a message board without a screen name or anything tying you to your identity IRL.
Anonymity
Imagined, one-way interactions with media figures
Parasocial relationships/parasocial interactions
[This is from the honeycomb framework]. Checking in on Grandma's location to be sure she's safe; hiding Airpods in your partner's car to see if they're going where they say they're going
Presence
You connect with a friend of a friend on LinkedIn; you have potential resources available through this person, although they are not a close friend.
Bridging social capital
Aspiring for something another person has (i.e. car, professional success).
Envy
[This is a type of social support]. Your friend texts you a hug emoji because you're sad your partner doesn't want to get engaged immediately.
Emotional support
This theory posits that online communication can be personal if given enough time.
Social information processing theory/cues filtered in
When online disinhibition leads to a positive outcome
Benign inhibition
Jane uses smilies in her text communication all the time, so you start doing the same to "mimic" her conversation style.
Communication Accommodation Theory
[This category is a jealousy-evoking scenario]. You see your current partner like someone's photo on Instagram who is attractive/you see them as a potential threat.
A partner showing interest in another.
[This is a type of social support]. You read this message someone left on your Facebook page after you opened up about some of your insecurities: "You're beautiful! You got this!"
Esteem support.
You are talking to one of your matches on Raya. You engage in asynchronous communication, carefully craft your messages, and both share only your best pictures. You meet in person and you are truly disappointed and likely fell victim to this.
Hyperpersonal communication
The term that describes your brother posting about his child frequently online.
Sharenting/oversharenting
You ask your friend if it's okay to post a picture of you two together on Facebook.
Communication Privacy Management Theory
[This category is a jealousy-evoking scenario]. Your partner is still connected to their ex-lover on TikTok.
Prior relationships
[This is a type of social support].You see someone post on Facebook that their cat needs emergency surgery. You electronically donate money to their GoFundMe campaign.
Instrumental/tangible support
The number of verbal and nonverbal cues that can be transmitted through the medium
Media Richness
You read a text from your child that says "Fine." You imagine the voice (tone) they're using in your head.
Solipsistic introjection
Using more media channels to connect with someone because they are a close tie
Media Multiplexity
[This is an affordance of social media that connects to jealousy]. Content on social media living on for years
Persistence
This refers to how much a message reflects an awareness of an adaptation to the subjective, affective, and relational aspects of communication contexts.
Person centeredness
This type of interaction online could include posting "Happy Birthday" to an acquaintance's Facebook wall.
Routine impersonal interaction