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Interpersonal Relationships

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 For this particular blog, I want to discuss an incident that happened within the 2020 pandemic. As we all know, we were all trapped inside and didn’t really have much of a chance to socialize with each other so we all often took the online route when talking to our friends or even meeting new people I myself wanted to meet some new people online and decided to download a particular social media app that is notoriously known for not having a lot of safety guards or features to protect their users however, I was not aware of this at the time through my time on the app, I proceeded to meet my friend. I’m going to call him D for the sake of anonymity. D bonded a lot through a particular game and thus created a friendship through creating art and stories revolving around this particular game. We would talk online, we would text, we would call and overall we integrated into each other’s lives and spoke to each other every single day.

However, as time passed, I realized that these intentions were not pure. D was a lot older than I was, and took advantage of my naïvity regarding certain topics and thus we began to start stagnating from one another and ultimately terminating our friendship due and never speaking again due to his inappropriate behavior. I chose this particular scenario because it was an extremely close friendship. I talked to him for two years, and we both grew with each other. Through studying Knapp's Relational Model I can pinpoint the exact moments where we came together and came apart through emotional and mental abuse. I know better now in regards to online safety and take certain precautions when even speaking to anyone online that I do not know. I consider this scenario a lesson for all young women to stay safe and vigilant on the Internet and always know that if anybody makes you uncomfortable, regardless of whether or not it’s through a screen, you are entitled to leave the friendship or leave the relationship. It does not make you a bad person.


Pearson, J. C., Nelson, P. E., Titsworth, S., & Hosek, A. M. (Eds.). (2021). Human communication(Seventh edition.). McGraw-Hill Education.

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