Download Your Facebook Data
Have you ever thought about what would happen if Facebook locked you out of your account or how to save all of your Facebook data if you decide to “deactivate” your account? I imagine many people don’t really think too much about all the photos or videos they have uploaded to Facebook or about everyone they are connected with on Facebook. The average Facebook user has over 115 friends which means 50% of Facebook users have more than that. What if you wanted to keep a listed or accounting of who all your Facebook friends are?
Good news…you can download all of your Facebook info into a zip file. Your Facebook data includes not only photos and videos but your Friends list, posts on your Wall, all of your Facebook messages and anything else you have posted on your Facebook profile.
But why would you want to?
Well, besides getting locked out of your account by Facebook or deactivating your account, there’s always the possibility that Facebook decides to just shut down completely someday (not very likely, but it could happen.) Also, for many people, who use Facebook for business and have invested many hours into developing and cultivating contacts on Facebook so this is valuable data to have backed up. It’s also not a bad idea to just save your Facebook data as a back up to your social networking history and as part of your ownership of your Facebook data.
Having a copy of your Facebook data is also a good idea if Facebook is the only place where some of your data exists. For example, if you upload photos from your mobile phone and you lose your phone or lose access to your photos on your phone, then you can still have a copy of them in your Facebook data backup.
How to Download Your Facebook Data
In the upper right, click on Account and from the Account Menu, select “Account Settings.”
On the Account Settings tab, scroll down to “Download Your Information” and click on “Learn More.”
Facebook will ask you to authenticate who you are before you download the data along with a warning about keeping this personal data safe.
Will you or have you downloaded our Facebook data?
Category: Facebook How-To
I absolutely will. You make a great case for it. I will also share this info on my Facebook page (www.facebook.com/socialmediacmo) and subscribe to your feed so I can keep updated. Good stuff!!
Thanks, Suzette. Glad you found the info helpful. I just liked your Facebook page. Looking forward to more comments and conversation with you.