MESSAGE EXCHANGING DEVICE, AND MESSAGE EXCHANGING METHOD

Provided are a message exchanging device and a message exchanging method capable of comprehensively collecting and classifying related items for all messages (content) in a community employing a social networking service (SNS). This message exchanging device for exchanging messages between members belonging to an arbitrarily defined group, using an SNS group function, is provided with: a storage unit for storing the messages exchanged between the members; an item setting unit for setting items for classifying the messages exchanged between the members belonging to the group; a message exchanging unit for exchanging the message separately for each item set by the item setting unit; and an item-specific message management unit for storing, separately for each item, the messages exchanged by the message exchanging unit in the storage unit.