I am really curious if you asked the question SHOULD I access a list of users who like a certain page. If even Facebook views the privacy of their users and the pages that they like on Facebook as private, perhaps you should consider your own research ethics. Membership lists typically receive certain protections under the law--especially in the EU and UK. While "likes" of a certain page are not necessarily construed as membership lists, it would set a fascinating legal precedent for someone to try them as such. -- Angela Newell, Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin LBJ School of Public Affairs amnewell@utexas.edu On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Andrew Roback <andrew.roback@gmail.com>wrote:
Hi all,
I am researching NPOs that use Facebook, and I'm trying to compile a network of users who like individual NPO FB pages. I have tried to get a list of users who like the NPO FB pages using two importers (NodeXL and netvizz), but these tools only download user-post networks and do not provide a list of all users who like the page (at least I didn't see that option).
I recently read that Facebook restricts this option in the API due to privacy concerns< http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3546320/how-to-list-facebook-users-who-li...
, and I noticed that the "like" class in FQL<http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/like>only returns lists for objects like posts, photos, etc.
Does anyone have a tool or method for using the API to get this data?
Thanks!
Andrew
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