I am conducting a social science research on social networks sites that requires me to have access to my study participant’s status updates and their corresponding comments.
I would like the following Facebook app to be developed that will be able to deliver at minimum the following:-
1) Develop a Facebook App that my study participant’s will have to add in order to gain access to their information posted on their wall. They would of course have to add the app first.
2) Using FBML (or whatever way you think is most suitable) to extract the data I need such as the status update (includes the message itself, date/time) and comments from friends (includes name, comment, date/time). Each of the friends should also be unique and be traceable later on in the database.
3) An output that ideally should be exportable to a database that I can later on manipulate for analysis in my research.
With the extracted information, I would like an application be able to:-
1) Extract the status updates of a particular person (the search can be by date, name, range of dates)
2) Show me the corresponding comments of selected status update(s)
3) Enable me to enter research notes into the status updates / comments
4) This application can be either online or offline. The data will not necessarily have to be retrieved live since I only need information from very specific dates
5) Trace who commented on whose status. Eg., given a person’s name, I can trace whose status he/she commented on. (I believe this is all database queries so something flexible where I can manipulate the search)
Let me know if you have any questions
