Think of all the ways you communicate everyday.
You think you read, you speak, you make lists, you gesture, you listen to the radio, you chat on Facebook, you watch TV, you talk on your cell-phone...
Extra-personal communication is when you communicate with non-humans. The most common form of extra-personal communication is your exchange of information with or through machines.
When two or more people communicate it is inter-personal communication.
When you communicate with yourself it is intra-personal communication.
When you broadcast a piece of communication to many people simultaneously, it is mass-media communication.
However, you must remember that human communication cannot be neatly pigeon-holed.
Some methods of communication straddle two categories-- talking on the phone or using the computer to chat for example, is both extra-personal and interpersonal communication
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