Today i am with a new tutorial that how to easily back up your facebook data ?
Where is all your Facebook stuff kept? You don’t really know do you? It could be in some giant server farm on an island somewhere attached to the same computer that has been repeating a distress signal with the numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, & 32 for the last 17 years. The point is: if you don’t have your Facebook data backed up & your account is hacked, disabled, or deleted, then you could potentially lose a lot of stuff that is significant to you (minus the Charlie Sheen inspired Haiku poetry of course).
You may have some of it backed up, such as your pictures, yet there is a lot of historical (and likely hysterical) posts that you may want to keep for posterity. It’s moreover satisfactory to have a backup of your Facebook data for legal reasons, in case you are ever involved in a dispute where someone posted something defamatory on your wall & then deleted it. If you made a backup before they removed the post to cover their tracks, then they will only have the ability to delete what is on the live site, & not what you have backed up.
The wizards at Facebook have provided a way to archive all of the stuff that you, & in many cases, your friends, have ever posted to your Facebook. According to Facebook, this content includes:
Wall posts & content that you & your friends have posted to your profile
Photos & videos that you have uploaded to your account
Your friend list
Notes you have created
Events to which you have RSVP’d
Your sent & received messages
Any comments that you & your friends have made on your Wall posts, photos, & other profile content
So how do you backup all your Facebook data? Here is a quick & effortless procedure to backup all the items mentioned above:
1. Login to your Facebook account.
2. Click the “Account” drop-down menu located in the top-right corner of your Facebook page.
3. Click on “Account Settings”.
4. From the “Settings” tab, Look for the line that says “Download Your Information” & click the link to the right of it that says: “learn more”.
5. Click the “Download” button on the page that follows.
After you click “Download”, you will receive a Facebook pop-up message stating that they are “gathering” all your information into a ZIP formatted file for you to download. The message says it may take awhile & that they will send you an e-mail when the file is ready to be downloaded.
The length of time it takes to build the archive file will depend on how much data (videos, pictures, etc) that you have posted to your account. For people who have been using facebook for several years, this could take a few hours or more. Mine took approximately 3 hours before it said it was ready for download. Make sure you have ample room on your computer’s complex drive to store the data file that you are approximately to download.
Before you can download you Facebook data file, Facebook will force you to prove your identity through a couple of security measures such as inputting your password & having you identify some of your friends by their pictures. These security measures assist to prevent hackers from obtaining the backup file which would basically provide them with a digital dossier of your Facebook life to take with them offline.
Add the Facebook backup process to your regular backup routine. It’s a satisfactory idea to backup your Facebook content every few weeks or months because you never know when the island that your Facebook data may be residing on might decide to implode or travel back in time to 1977. Good luck getting your comical cat videos back if that happens.
Can you count the number of comical cat videos, Charlie Sheen inspired Haiku poems, & LOLs you’ve posted on Facebook over the years? I’m going to guess the answer is no.
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