Interpersonal Communication Ethics

In chapter7, we can find some familiar and useful approaches to understanding our daily concerns in interpersonal communication. Our textbook said that interpersonal communication protect and promotes “good of the relationship between and among a small number of people”(pg120). As Stewart insisted on page121, college students are likely to face the change of interpersonal communication in life since their distance between them and their family or close high school friends would be extended. In the three basic assumptions the author suggested, I thought the second one saying interpersonal communication develops our relationship not to advantage in careers or political agencies, but to bond responsibility among small group.

In order to improve communication skills, we need to consider that interpersonal communication ethics involve responsibility to the relationships. In my case, since I’m an international student, I have a long distance between my high school friends and me. I rarely see them like one a year. Even though technologies such as facebook and FaceTime allow us to keep in touch easily, it is hard to keep relationship as close as it used to be. Indeed, I feel like I lost some friends. On the other hand, I get a long with some of other friends even more closely. It doesn't mean sending message everyday or longing to see each other, but it means the bond between them and me have been strengthened through understanding of the circumstance and solid implicit demand. Distance is definitely one of the sources that make communication complicated because we all have different sense of comfortable and appropriate distance, but it would be maintained by respecting others mindfully.