Facebook has got too much of your data like your uploaded photos, messages, status updates, likes, videos etc. Did you know that you have an option to download all of Facebook data from your Facebook account ? Google has given it’s users an option to pull out all your data using Google Takeout [Link]. Well, this is how you do it.
- Login to Facebook and click on settings icon.
- Click on Account Settings.
- In the image as shown here, click on ‘Download a Copy’.
- Now click on ‘Start My Archive’.
The downloaded content will all of your timeline data like photos, videos, wall posts, messages and many other information. Click on start will download your content and the time taken to download depends on how much content you have uploaded all these years, how huge your album is, older your account in years more will be the time taken to download your content. Your information is available to you in three different places:
- Downloaded Info – which includes your timeline info like posts you have shared, messages, photos, videos and more.
- Expanded Archive – which includes account info like logins, cookies and more. This is in addition to the above downloaded info. You have an option to download this separately.
- Activity Log – includes history of all your activity from posts you have commented on or liked, to apps you have used, to anything you have searched for. Your search details may not be present if you deleted your Facebook Search History [Link].
Also, don’t forget to keep this data safe as it has your entire Facebook Timeline information.
