Dear Cathy, Following up on Nicole's observations, I've encountered similar policies. After some Facebook research was released last month FB Privacy Counsel Chris Kelly followed up with me and stated: "Such sharing (or the scraping of data by researchers) is not allowable under our current policy." Sorry about this. -Fred On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Nicole B Ellison wrote:
Hi Catherine, Before investing too much time in the technical specifics, I would suggest you contact Facebook and confirm they will not shut down your access once they identify you are crawling them. This has been an issue for my research team here at MSU and others I've spoken with.
Nicole
Catherine Dwyer writes:
hello, I am planning a survey of Facebook members at NJIT, where I am a PhD student. I would like to write a web crawl or similar program to identify through Facebook who is part of the NJIT network. I have seen other papers discuss this technique, but I need more specific details as to how to accomplish it. Any ideas?
Many thanks,
Cathy Dwyer, Lecturer Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems Pace University http://csis.pace.edu/~dwyer Office location: CS/IS Faculty Offices 163 Williams Street #225 212-346-1728
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