Conclusions Recommendations for the design of social software meant to seed real world relationships: Make the incentive to meet simple and clear. Build event-centric components into the software. Don't forbid what you can't prevent. Create a transactive social memory. Make successful meetings visible within the system. Facilitate network traversal and trawling. Beware the Goldilocks group size problem. Expect the system to evolve. Let it. << Back Thesis  |  Presentation  |  Message Board  |  Wiki  | Home Contact: Alicia L. Cervini Interactive Telecommunications Program, 2003