General A01

• The internet and social media provide huge opportunities to form relationships with other
• It removes a lot of the difficulties and/or barriers that people experience when doing the same thing face to face
• Social networking has changed things radically and evidence suggests that there are interesting differences in the way people conduct virtual relationships
• What 2 things need to be considered?

  • Effects of self-disclosure
  • Effects of the removal of gates that frequently make FtF relationship-formation difficult