Interpersonal communication is communication with or between persons who approach one another as individuals in a relationship.

Media multiplexity refers to the phenomenon in which the closer a relationship dyad, the more means of communication they use to maintain their relationship with one another. Media multiplexity assumes relationship strength drives patterns of media use between individuals.

halo

matching

Social Penetration Theory

Initiating, experimenting, intensifying, integrating, bonding, differentiating, circumscribing, stagnating, avoiding, termination

Hyperpersonal

Relational dialectics

confirming; disconfirming