Parameters of Interaction

Number of Connections or "Friends"

• Do people behave differently if they don't have a previous connection or history with the person they're interacting with?
• How do people behave if they have a limited number of set connections?
• Does anything change if connection count isn't visible to others?

Listening Period or Reflection Space

• The Listening Period was presented by Gordon Mangum at Center for Civic Media, and can be perused in further detail here
• A Reflection Space was posited as an IntrospectionBot which might prompt a mental stretch similar to desktop reminders to get up and move around.

Threading Model

• What is in the conversation?
• Who can participate?
• Who can view?
• How many nesting levels are there?

Privacy Control

• Who can see and interact with the discussion?

Scope Control

Set by the poster via the platform: who and how many people is the post advertised to?

Prioritization

Set by listener, as allowed by the platform

Randomization/Serendipity/Enforced Bubble Popping

How do we prevent people from complete homophily?

Latency Tolerance / Persistance

How long to messages last, and do you have to be present in order to see them?

Notifications

Knowing that something has happened on a network can either help you re-engage or be so annoying you rage quit.

Integration

Is it possible to cross-post from other platforms? What about email? Does it work on mobile? Etc.

Indexed / Unindexed

Is it searchable?

Sharing

• Easy: Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr. Arguably also what adds to phases of outrage -- all passing on, no synthesis.
• Difficult: Instagram, LiveJournal. Require reference to the original, rather than passing on.
• Aggregate: RSS, occasionally with commenting function.

Message Size

• character limit
• image size or shape

Velocity of Content

• Possible to inject unicorns in order to appease system 1
• Possible to provide reframing for system 2