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Facebook has added a new download button in your
account that will help you move all your data out of Facebook as a zip file. It
will have all your photos, videos, status messages, events and everything else
that you may have ever uploaded to Facebook.
The process, is extremely simple. Just go to your
Account Settings page and click the “Download Your Information” link.
How to download the “missing pieces”
If you have been staying away from Facebook all this
while because it was a one-way street, now is a good time to reconsider that
decision because the data lock-in problem has been solved.
There are however some things that you won’t find in
the zip file. These include:
1.
Your photos uploaded by other people
Facebook lets you download stuff that you have
uploaded but if there are pictures of you on Facebook that were uploaded by
your friends, they won’t be available in the zip.
In that case, you should use Fotobounce, an excellent app that
can download all the photos where you were tagged with a click. Fotobounce is
available on both Mac and Windows.
2.
Email Addresses of Friends
This I think is another important piece that you’ll
miss in the exported data – email addresses of your existing Facebook contacts.
If you move to another social site, how do you invite your existing network to
the new place when you don’t have their email addresses.
Facebook doesn’t offer a way for you to
export contacts but you can use this trick to
get all the email addresses out of Facebook without breaking any rules. Connect
your Facebook account with your Yahoo! Address Book and you’ll get the data you
are looking for.
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