Chapter 6-Self Disclosure

For this blog I choose to discuss self-disclosure. Self-disclosure is described as the voluntary revealing of information that would normally be unobtainable. In most interpersonal situations people are reluctant to self-disclose about certain issues. When I think about how I self-disclose information, it usually occurs between family members or close friends. I do not feel comfortable letting random people or associates know information about my self that I would otherwise not want to tell people. This makes me realize that knowing who u can self disclose towards lets one know whom their real friends are. Sometimes it may be easy to talk to a certain friend or maybe you just have a lot of trust in one particular friend. Being able to tell valuable information about yourself is a balancing act because you do not want to end up getting stabbed in the back for it. Which I know for a fact has happened to many people in this course.