Analysis of Communications Interpersonal Friends with Benefits In Jakarta Students

Abstract

In the current era, the relationship between two people is no longer limited to friends, girlfriends, husbands, or families. The emergence of the phenomenon of friend with benefits among the younger generation becomes a new color in categorizing relationships. This research aimed to find out how the form of interpersonal communication friend with benefits that occurs among Jakarta students. In this research, the theory of interpersonal communication and the concept of self-disclosure is used. This study used a qualitative approach and phenomenology method and conducted interviews and literature studies in data collection. A friend with a benefit that occurs in Jakarta students arises because of interpersonal communication that arises along with self-openness that causes friend with benefits relationships to occur. This arises because of the desire to meet certain needs, such as sexuality, without being bound by a committed relationship. The selection of friends as a friend with benefit pairs is not made arbitrarily because it requires compatibility and fulfillment of criteria.