Table 5.

Study 2 messages received.

Theme	Study 2 message quotes
Assistance	“Hi Rupa, we thank you for reaching out and thinking of us for this cause. Unfortunately, we are unable to share your link on our page due to our community guidelines. We wish you the best of luck and thank you for your commitment toward bettering the lives of those affected by diabetes.”
	“I will join the group myself and see what it is about and then I will decide if I wish to pass the information on to my other group members.”
Clarification	“What will the information you gather go towards? New guidelines for type 2?”
	“Are you seeking this from the Arab American community or anyone can participate?”
Concerns	“I need to know whether your group is going to listen to concepts that may run contrary to the ADA. Many of us believe that the ADA is very narrow-minded and actually has caused more damage than helped. Need to know where you stand with traditional concepts.”
	“I am an Indian advocate and it has been our cultural that these studies are never good for our culture. With broken treaties, feeding our relatives alcohol, bad government food in the name of the commodities program, isolation on the most desolate reservations and colonies. Fake blood tests that were really designed to get our DNA, trust is an issue for natives.”
Encouragement	“Ma'am, I am not an expert on groups, but I would like to see if you would like to observe of how we run our group from the admin side. This will give you important insight on what we have found to work and what did not, how we communicate with each other, and how we run our group as tightly with less spam that most. Let me know if you would want to do this. I think it might help you to not make many of the mistakes that we did starting out.”
	“Hi Rupa, Of course I will share the message! Sorry it took so long to get back to you. I was on vacation for the past two weeks and haven’t done a ton of updating. Good luck in your study! Posted! J”
Health Information	“I have changed my eating habits and eat healthy foods now. I eat fish and chicken baked, veggies and fruits (berries, apples and citrus) occasionally bananas for the potassium. I drink a gallon of water a day and walk when possible. I take vitamin b complex, vitamin c and a multiple vitamin daily. I hope this information helps. Losing weight has helped as well. I am still working on losing more but the 40 pounds I have lost has helped a lot.”
	“I have type 2 diabitees lamtaking insulin twice aday”
Interest	“If you have any studies on type 1 please let me know, I would love to participate. I know [name] who works there at UVA in the [name] dept. She is a [position] with your university. I just live too far away to participate in the [name] project stuff unfortunately.”
	“Thanks for the return. It is ok thanks. Well if you do get the ok to go global please keep me in your records. My wife is diabetic too by the way. May it go well and you get the results that you are searching for. Kindest regards and thanks for conscidering me even if unsuccessful this time round. Sincerely”
Solicitations	“In return could I ask that you take a look at the real diabetic reader reviews page for my book [name] [url] and send the link to people you know with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes.”
	“Hi Rupa, So sorry for the lag time. I have been on vacation and trying to get through everything. Yes, we would be happy to post this on our Facebook page. I will plan to post it tonight. I would like to ask if you would be willing to post about [page name] on your Facebook page. If so, please let me know, and I will send a post over to you. Thank you!”