Facilitating Social Networking in Inner-City Neighborhoods

The success of new social networking systems for residents of inner-city neighborhoods depends on the software's ability to animate and support meaningful interaction proximate users, to network serendipitous social encounters, and to seamlessly with the way interaction takes place in existing urban social networks

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