DQ2Q: Social media (e.g., email, blogs, Facebook, Skype, Twitter) has played a major role in changing the way that we all engage in interpersonal communication. As we have learned this week, this form of communication through electronic media is referred to as mediated communication.

As with everything, there are many pros and cons to using mediated communication in our interpersonal relationships. How has mediated communication improved your interpersonal relationships? How has it hurt them? Provide examples to illustrate your point.

DQ2A: Online media has proven a blessing as well as a curse. First, I will address the blessing aspect. Since high school ended, I lost touch with a lot of people. It was due to either distance or people moving and getting married. Some people I lost...