Self Disclosure Theory Essay

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Self-disclosure is about how much information is stated, such as feelings and thoughts. By sharing personal aspects or private information (Wheeless, 1978). Disclosure is an attempt at building rapport and to better learn about yourself. It helps your perspective to the receiver, to become visible or noticed. Self disclosure can either benefit or hurt your verbalizations. By involving others, it can make you weak through criticism or rejection. By testing assumption or disclosing information, you can distinguish if the receiver is receptive to be reciprocated.

In 1973 two social psychologists, Irwin Altmar and Dalmas Taylor; developed the self disclosure theory to relate to social penetration theory. It entails correlation to peeling an onion.
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Goals of finding friends that have similar interests or live near you. Also, depending on physical appearance or likes and interests can benefit finding friends online. By initiating contact, you can experiment by correlation of hobbies and interested topics with others. If the friendship seems reciprocal, then intensify the communication to see what others are interested in. By integrating positive similarities, it will help build the bond between each other. It will help to develop and maintain close relations with others. Just be sure to be appropriate, by reciprocating information and question, to form positive …show more content…
It wasn 't very hard to make more friends through, school or work interactions. When I would share pieces of my life, friends and family would comment positively. It forged bonds with all the recipients included, but also left vulnerability to judgment on my life style. Its easy to update my situation via mediated communication online. Contrarily, it can be very informational to individuals, who dislike you, to use against you for unfavored choices. I don 't update every little status with every waking minute, but I feel it can benefit and/ or hurt depending on what is posted. I would suggest to be thoughtful of what you post, if you don 't want someone to see and embarrass

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