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• "Developing Personal and Emotional Relationships Via Computer-Mediated Communication" by Brittney Chenault. Read this detailed piece about on-line relationships including issues about emotions, assumptions, reduced cues, the dark side, and "when on-line goes off-line." Also at the I site at http://www.december.com/cmc/mag/1998/may/chenault.html.
• "Social Relationships in Electronic Forums" by Rob Kling. Read about "hangouts, salons, workplaces and communities" in this CMC Magazine article also at www.december.com/cmc/mag/1996/jul/kling.html.

1. How are each of Duck's filtering cues present in on-line relationships?

2. Do on-line relationships progress through each stage of Knapp's model or do they skip certain stages? Explain.

3. Chenault argues that on-line relationships can have depth and show emotion. Do you agree or disagree? Why or why not?

4. Do you think on-line relationships develop faster or slower than face-to-face relationships? Why?