Through the process of developing the social presence tutorial, I gained a deep understanding of the importance of message volume in an online environment. The amount of messages or feedback required by students to participate in forums/bulletinboards is an important factor to consider because large amount of messages generated can be very intimidating or exhausting for students to keep up. What at first seems like a fun asynchronous way to communicate now becomes a tedious task to keep up. I reflect back to some of the online classes that I thought were a drag, or poorly facilitated, and those were the classes that heavily required me to post thoughts and then respond at least two or three times over to the same thread.