Although social networking sites such as Facebook are increasingly being regarded as an interesting source of information, there are no specific techniques that adequately address the specific nature of social media. Social networking sites display intentions of consumers and therefore techniques specifically designed to deal with this aspect have to be introduced. This paper focuses on Facebook groups, but the techniques described can be used to analyse any social networking site.
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