OK. So you are an active Facebook user. Imagine, just imagine, some grieved enemy of yours reports your posts, and Facebook ends up deleting your account. How would you feel?
Ruined?
You need not worry. Facebook, the most popular social networking site, has a way to tackle this situation. It does so by allowing you to download all your account information at the click of a button.
The download is in the form of a zip file containing all your profile pictures, your photos, the photos you have been tagged in, wall posts and videos. Your messages, friend list, events, likes (and almost everything you have ever uploaded on Facebook) is also included in the downloaded zip file.
Upon unzipping the downloaded zip file, you will find folders of offline data in an HTML version of your profile with offline links to the above stated things if you have selected the HTML format for downloading your data. In the JSON format, JSON files will be present instead of HTML files.
Downloading your account will not mean that Facebook will delete your profile. The downloaded data will only serve as a backup to your online Facebook account.
You can download your account's data by following the steps given below:-
Although this is a good feature, Facebook offers no way to re-import this information from your storage devices to your account or to a new account if you wish to create a new account with all your old data.
Ruined?
You need not worry. Facebook, the most popular social networking site, has a way to tackle this situation. It does so by allowing you to download all your account information at the click of a button.
The download is in the form of a zip file containing all your profile pictures, your photos, the photos you have been tagged in, wall posts and videos. Your messages, friend list, events, likes (and almost everything you have ever uploaded on Facebook) is also included in the downloaded zip file.
Upon unzipping the downloaded zip file, you will find folders of offline data in an HTML version of your profile with offline links to the above stated things if you have selected the HTML format for downloading your data. In the JSON format, JSON files will be present instead of HTML files.
Downloading your account will not mean that Facebook will delete your profile. The downloaded data will only serve as a backup to your online Facebook account.
You can download your account's data by following the steps given below:-
- Login to Facebook.
- Click on your profile picture icon at the right side of the top navigation bar.
- In the dropdown menu, click on Settings & privacy and then, click on Settings.
- Click on View next to the Download your information option.
- In the following dialog box, click on Request a download.
- In the following dialog box, select your Facebook account and click Next.
- In the following dialog box, select "Complete copy".
- Select the Date range for which you want to download the information of (All time preferably). Select the Format of the Download (HTML preferably if you want to browse through your profile in a web browser) and Media quality (High preferably) based on your need.
- Click on Submit request.
- Facebook will notify you when it finishes preparing your download. After Facebook finishes preparing an archive of your data, a download link will be shown in step 4.
- Click on the Download button to download your data from the available files. Facebook might ask you to enter your password before letting you download the archive.
Although this is a good feature, Facebook offers no way to re-import this information from your storage devices to your account or to a new account if you wish to create a new account with all your old data.
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