Hi Feona, Myself and some fellow researchers at Michigan State ( https://www.msu.edu/~nellison/TOIL) have conducted two studies of adult Facebook users over the last year and a half. Last year we did a qualitative (interview) study of adult users ages 25-55 and had three papers come out of it, one which is currently being reworked for a journal and two which have been published in proceedings. We also just wrapped up a second study of university staff users (so mainly adults in the same age range) that included a survey and lab session. We've recently submitted our first paper to a conference and are working on others. As we've done research with adults, we've done a fair amount of searching for other researchers using adult populations and not found much. Pew Internet makes their datasets publicly available so you could always do a reanalysis of one of their many datasets (or simply read their reports). Also, Moira Burke has done some solid research using surveys and server-level data of adult Facebook users (not limited to 30-somethings). Cites for our papers: - Wohn, D. Y., Lampe, C., Vitak, J., & Ellison, N. (2011). Coordinating the ordinary: Social information uses of Facebook by adults. In *Proceedings of the 6th Annual iConference*. New York: ACM. - Wohn, D. Y., Lampe, C., Ellison, N., Wash, R., & Vitak, J*.* (2011). The “S” in social network games: Initiating, maintaining, and enhancing relationships. In *Proceedings of the 44th **Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences* (CD-ROM). Computer Society Press. - Vitak, J., & Ellison, N. (2010, November). “There's a network out there you might as well tap”: Social support and information-sharing on Facebook by adult users. Paper presented at the 96th Annual Conference of the National Communication Association, San Francisco. (This one is being redone for a journal.) Jessica ___________________________________ Jessica Vitak Doctoral Student Media and Information Studies 409 Communication Arts & Sciences Bldg. Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824 On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 6:01 PM, <air-l-request@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:

Message: 4 Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 09:13:25 +0100 From: "Attwood, Fiona" <F.Attwood@shu.ac.uk> To: "air-l@listserv.aoir.org" <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] Facebook and people in their thirties Message-ID: < FAD335EC811439459B44CA8EEFFFFB9F03B43821E2@HOLLYHOCK.hallam.shu.ac.uk>

Can anyone suggest any studies that have been done of the way that people in their thirties engage with Facebook, and specifically how this has impacted on the way they think about and manage their personal relationships? I am particularly interested in the ways in which people?s views of intimacy, community and communication might have shifted since their use of Facebook and how they compare their pre-Facebook and post-Facebookexperiences. Thanks, Feona

....... Feona Attwood http://feonaattwood.com/ http://onscenity.org/

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