Forms of Interpersonal Communication

There are two forms of interpersonal communication:
1. Face- to- face communication
2. Online Communication














Face- to face communication
- talking with other students before class
- interacting with friends and family over dinner
- This form of communication probably come to mind when you think of conversation














OnlineCommunication
- E-mail
~ common use of the Internet
~ in email you type your letter in an email program and send it

- Mailing list group
~ consists of group of people interested in a particular topic who communicate with each other through e- mail

- Instant Messaging (Often abbreviated IM)
~ an Internet text- based system that allows you to converse online with short messages in (essentially) real time
~ through IM you can also play game, share files, listen to music, send messages to cell phone and also make call

- Chat groups
~ have proliferated accross the Internet
~ these groups enable you to converse in real time