Virtual relationships in social media

• Virtual relationships defined

  • Virtual relationships are relationships formed online and via computer-mediated communication (CMC).
  • They encompass a wide variety of electronic communication methods from email, instant messaging, chat rooms, texts and social networking sites.
• Name of theory where self-disclosure is reduced


  The reduced cues theory by Sproull and Kiesler
• Name of model for when self-disclosure is increased

  The hyperpersonal model by Walther