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Social Understanding, Placeness, and Identity Alignment: A Design Framework for Friendship-Supportive Youth Social Media

Alexis Hiniker, Jaewon Kim

A framework based on three senses helps design youth social media that supports forming, deepening, and maintaining friendships.

arxiv:2605.07025 v2 · 2026-05-07 · cs.HC

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Iterative analysis of 209 design-relevant data points identified three pillars: Sense of Social Understanding (interaction norms, interaction cues and scaffolding, social accountability and governance), Sense of Place (third place and community, boundaries and personal spaces, shared presence), and Sense of Identity Alignment (identity currency, identity plurality, relational identity signals). The framework maps nine design spaces through which platforms can support the conditions under which youth friendships form, deepen, and are maintained.

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That the three synthesized pillars comprehensively and generally capture the conditions for youth friendship formation and maintenance across the studied contexts, without major unaccounted cultural, demographic, or platform-specific variations.

C3one line summary

A multi-study synthesis yields a design framework with three pillars—social understanding, placeness, and identity alignment—mapping nine spaces for platforms to support youth friendships.

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Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
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d42915fadc4f9afd50ff990576d310fb2aa93d35aff019c3740f5265e6c9cf7b

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arxiv: 2605.07025 · arxiv_version: 2605.07025v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.07025 · pith_short_12: 2QURL6W4J6NP · pith_short_16: 2QURL6W4J6NP2UH7 · pith_short_8: 2QURL6W4

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