Abstract: A virtual space may be provided to users in which places in the virtual space are associated with individual users. Individual ones of such places may be locations or spaces within the virtual space that the individual users control, tend, decorate, own, and/or are associated with in other ways. The spatial arrangement of the places in the virtual space, represented by a map of the virtual space, may be customized for individual users to instigate and/or facilitate interactions and/or engagement of the users with and in the virtual space. As such, individual spatial arrangements of the places, or maps of the virtual space, may be created for individual ones of the users.

Abstract: User interaction within a virtual space is facilitated through unintended side effects to primary interactions between users. In the virtual space, primary interactions between source and target users have unintended tangential effects. The tangential effects are provided to other users. The other users are users which are active at the time the corresponding primary interaction was triggered, and are relatively likely to enjoy participating in the virtual space with the source and/or target users. This may encourage interaction between the users as they respond to the tangential effects (e.g., by responding to the source user of a primary interaction that caused the effects).