Previous studies identify four main service design characteristicsrelated to social media which play an important role in shaping theconsumer perceptions of the social media environment. They are: content quality, brand interactivity, brand page sociability and customercontact quality (Carlson et al., 2018). Within the context of this study,and since the primarily concern is understanding the customer-companyrelationship, a focus group was conducted to understand whether thefour previously mentioned characteristics were all relevant. The resultsshowed that only two of the characteristics were considered to beimportant, namely: content quality and brand page interactivity. Theywere posited as the stimuli in the model and are defined as follows: