[Air-L] research on older people's use of social networking sites

[Ben Anderson]

On 25 Jul 2009, at 16:46, Virpi Ylanne wrote:

> I wonder if anyone on this site is doing research on older people's  
> (60+ yrs) use of social networking sites (e.g. facebook, myspace),  
> or if you know of any such work.

there have also been some excellent studies of seniornet:

http://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?q=seniornet&hl=en&scoring=r&as_ylo=2004h

which pre-dates fb/myspace etc but reveals similar social processes  
with web 0.5 :-)

Ben

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