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This study proposed some considerations for designing social media to encourage self-reflection of users, referring to rationales of exemplary case, "Ripening Room". Ripening Room provides ripening time, a delay period between the time of writing and sharing posts, and a ripening score to evaluate users' self-reflection. To give insights for the design a preliminary exploration was conducted on university students about their perceptions and experience of selfreflection in social media. To evaluate the effect of Ripening Room's design, an empirical study on Ripening Room was conducted. Participants mentioned that the features of Ripening Room inspired them to self-reflect upon their thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. From the findings of the empirical study, further implications were suggested.

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The evolution of SNS applications has focused on the increasing pace of communication. Accordingly, adopting pause moment design for the SNS domain becomes significant, considering its worth for mental well-being and diversity of experience. Nonetheless, the vision is currently controversial, as it is lacking in attempts to examine the worth of pause moment design for SNS communication. Therefore, we discussed the benefits of pause moment design as an SNS application, based on the case of Ripening Room. From observation, we have identified three benefits of pause moment design; preserving room for solitude, expanding time experience, and providing additional indirect cues for communication. Nevertheless, the benefits also imply limitations of the current design, thus require following attempts to adopt a pause moment design for the SNS domain.