What happens when those nonverbal cues are removed? CMC cannot offer nonverbal cues that can vary from facial expressions to the tone in a person’s voice. Although nonverbal cues are not apart of CMC, relationships do have the potential to achieve. The Social Information Processing Theory (SIP), suggested that without the nonverbal cues of FtF communication, deep relationships can still form through CMC, but will form at a slower rate (Griffin, 2012). With SIP as a framework for studies, seeing into how people replace nonverbal cues and interpret them can allow for better understanding on how to efficiently create and uphold interpersonal relationships through CMC. After deeper description of SIP, this literature review will research many different studies with SIP as the framework. The combination of these studies show the altered ways couples in an online romantic relationship fill absent nonverbal cues, and also shows disclosure is evident in online task driven …show more content…
Ramirez, Jr. and Zhang (2006) discovered that after a pair completed a task online and created a relationship, their relationship significantly declined after meeting each other in a FtF setting. Many of the nonverbal cues were deduced from their CMC, which caused a hyperpersonal identity to be created. This resulted in a decline of both relational and task related