You give Facebook a lot of information, probably more information than you think. You also have a ton of content on Facebook that belongs to you. This is your information and your property. Here is how you can download your Facebook data, and why you should.
How to Download Your Facebook Data
Facebook made downloading your data easy and painless.
Downloading Your Facebook Data from the Facebook Website
1. Go to facebook.com – If you’re on a tablet or phone, go to the website, not the app. Although, you can do this from the app as well. See below.
2. Go to settingsor use this link: https://www.facebook.com/settings – you can find the settings option in the dropdown list in the upper right.
You may want to spend a little time perusing some of these options. You’ll likely find a number of interesting things concerning the data Facebook has, and what you can do to manage that information. Don’t be afraid to poke around and nosey. After all, this is your stuff.
4. Choose the option to Download Your Information.
Once you’re in the download screen, you will see
instructions for creating a package and how to download it when it’s ready. You
don’t have to download everything. You can choose from a rather expansive list
of options.
You can choose to only download your posts and media. You
can choose to download your location and search history. You can pick a date
range and all the messenger messages from that range. This part is up to you.
You can go through this process as often as you want, so there’s no need to
think you’ll leave something behind.
For most people, choosing to download as HTML is the best option. Facebook also allows you to download JSON file, but that’s only for tech-savvy people or people who know how to import Facebook data into other applications.
That’s really all there is to it. After you make your selections
and click Create File, you will have to wait. You will receive a Facebook
notification when the file is ready to download.
Downloading Your Facebook Data from the Facebook App
You can go through this whole process from the app. However, I wouldn’t recommend downloading the final file to your phone or tablet unless you have the space for it.
1. Open the Facebook App
2. Go to the triple bar/hamburger button ≡ – Usually located in the top right
3. Scroll to Settings & Privacy, and then choose Settings
4. Scroll to the Your Facebook Information section – From there, everything works just about the same as it does from the website.
What to Do With Your Facebook Data
Download
The download will come to
you as a compressed ZIP file. Most computers can open these natively. Otherwise,
you can use WinRAR or 7-zip to open the file. Inside you will have an Index
HTML file and folders with your posts and other information as HTML files.
Any media, such as pictures or videos, will also come in a folder. You can view these things individually. Any browser will open an HTML file. The best way to go about it is to unzip the entire folder, open the index.html file, then go from there.
Depending on how much you chose to include, the download file can turn out quite large. Make sure you have the data connection to download it all and the space for it on your computer or other device.
If you don’t want to download your data, you can choose the Access Your Information option and just look through it all. You can even see a history of all the ads you clicked on. Ain’t that something?
Why You Should Download Your Facebook
Data Right Now
Facebook keeps hitting the
news about privacy concerns. All that data the platform collects is your information;
you should know what Facebook has of yours to share with advertisers and data
collectors.
Courts and other legal entities can subpoena Facebook for access to this data. You should know what’s in there before others do.
Privacy concerns aside, there are numerous other reasons to download this data. Having a local copy of all your posts can help you more easily search through them. If you’re looking for posts that you want to use for something else, this is the best way to do it. For example, if you posted poetry all over your timeline, and in groups, this can help you find them all.
Maybe you just want your
collection of pictures or videos without trying to download all of them one at
a time. Remember, this is your stuff, your intellectual property, and your
material. Shouldn’t you have a copy of your stuff?
One major consideration
for downloading your data is if you plan to leave the platform. If you’re going
to delete your account, make sure you grab your stuff on the way out.
One final thing: Keep in mind that Facebook changes its UI all the time. This article is based on the design and settings as they are right now. Things can change in the future. If you can’t find the option to download your Facebook data, keep looking. It’s in there somewhere.
I consume a ton of media. I mean…like a hell of a lot. Movies, books, television shows, podcasts, anime and various other things. The problem is, I always want to write about them, but never have the time. Many times, I will even start an article but never finish it. So it just sits there, but when I’m ready to work on it, I find that I no longer remember a lot about it other than my general impression.
As an example, this site has many articles that have sat around, some for years, and they are all unfinished drafts. Although I promise to get back to them, I lose interest. For instance, the very post you are reading has sat around for days! And, as much as I enjoy blogging about blogging…it’s taken me a while to get back to this.
1/2Remembered Thoughts
Obviously, I do not have the time to go back and rewatch or reread everything just so I can write out a 500-word review. Nor do I have the time to go review it all just as a refresher. However, what I will do is create some articles about these things with just my half-remembered impressions. So, instead of a whole, thought out article, I’m just going to keep it brief and talk about whatever impressions of the piece worked for me. More like a recommendation.
Blogging Social Statuses
I would also like to do posts centered on my FB and Twitter statuses. I post many statuses that I think are worth talking more about. Unfortunately, due to the nature of both FB and Twitter, these posts usually don’t have a lifespan past a day or two. So I’ll be posting some old statuses, expounding on them and opening them up for discussion…not that too many people comment here, but maybe this is a step in the right direction to get some talking going on around here.
So, there you have it. This is just an update for the two or three of you that care about such things. And technically, it is the very first of my “1/2remembered” posts…since I was planning to say all this like a year or so ago…
Before we get into it, I just wanna say: Hey people! How the hell have ya been?? What’s good with ya? How’s life? Feel free to holla at me:)We are going to break this down into three sections. First music, then poetry. Some of you signed up for one or the other, but not both – the third section is miscellaneous stuff. Lots of text, so if you hate seeing big blocks of words…feel free to just click the links.
No new stuff…sorry. For a while, I didn’t even have the willpower to record anything new. Once I did get the willpower to do it, my equipment stopped working. However, just today, I was able to record a test track so maybe I will be able to get some new music done soon. I will upload the test track in a day or so for you to listen to.
I plan to complete two projects. One is SB Retro, which consists of old unfinished tracks from a thousand years ago. The other is the Practice Words mixtape which will be all of the songs I did using Big B beats. You already heard most of them; I just have to put them together in one collection.
I also want to start making beats again. There’s only so much you can do using beats that you do not own the rights to. I can’t afford to be paying dudes for commercial use of their beats. So I guess I gotta try my hand at making my own. Either that or finding creative commons beats that allow commercial usage.
I am still down to collaborate, rhyme on anybody’s beat or whatever. I really want to do some more experimental type music.
Notice the last new song I posted on my blog was Empty Hallways…in September of last year!
Not much to report on the poetry front neither. The last three poetry posts on my blog were two involving iambic heptameter and one about some of my short twitter poems. Check em out. There’s audio and video on the first one.
I was supposed to have my second chapbook of poetry available way before now as well, but the project stagnated. The original plan was to make three chapbooks and then combine them into one book. I’m thinking I may skip straight to the single volume. Any thoughts?
On a similar note, my first chapbook, Sentiments of the Cerebral, is available on Amazon for Kindle and e-reader devices. Check it out.
I’m trying to think of things I need to add to my site. Any feedback is very welcome. I know I need a dedicated “downloads” page. But what else?
I’m also working on an urban fantasy novel. You know, with magic, vampires, and crazy shit like that. But that’s outside the scope of this email 🙂 Check my site for more details on that.
I also noticed that I can no longer send these types of updates to Facebook. They turned off that service. So from here on out, I will post these newsletter type emails straight to my blog as posts after I send em out to my subscribers. I’ll also post the whole thing straight into my fan page as a post. It doesn’t reach as many people that way though 🙁
Ah well. That’s all for today. I’d like to make these updates more often, but of course, that means I need to be doing more stuff to justify em 🙂 I want to hear from you fine people more often though. Help me help you!
PRESS
“WORDS ON POETS: SILENCIO BARNES In the tradition of slam poetry, Silencio Barnes really delivers to the audience. His self published chapbook is titled “Sentiments of the Cerebral”, it exposes a lot of truth and depth. This chapbook is no waste of ink and is a must for your collection of Lehigh Valley Poets. Silencio is a much anticipated and popular featured poet at West Side Poetry at the Hava Java Café. In the mid-spring he will be featured in the touring project, “Wednesday In Motion”. For copies of his work, contact him or Word Wednesday.” Yodi, wordwednesdays.blogspot.com
I never send any of these bulk emails, mainly because I don’t have anything to sell. But somebody reminded me that even without trying to make some money, I should still keep in contact with the folks that choose to be fans of what I do.
I love all of y’all. Thanks for checking me out and liking me enough to want to hear more from me. I’m damn near 30 and that still warms my heart.
So, I just wanted y’all to know, I’m very active on twitter and Facebook, and you can feel free to come “like” me.
I also have a website which has a little something on there for everybody. All of my music, poetry and videos are there, and a lot of other things as well. Feel free to come take a look. Everything on there is freely available from my tracks, to my poetry chapbook, and all of my recordings. Feel free to use whatever ya want.
That’s pretty much it, just wanted to remind you all that I’m still here and still concocting creative cocktails. Any questions? Ideas, collab requests (of any sort) then feel free to drop me a line – either through my site, on twitter, or on Facebook. I’ll get back to ya
I was put on to Lamebook.com by a comment on a Mashable article about people getting fired because of stuff they do on social networks 😉 (which you can read here)
In Lamebook’s own words, this is what the site is about:
“Lamebook is for fun…We post lame and funny pictures, status updates, and other gems found on your favorite social networking site.
All content is user-submitted and we ensure that those who submit will remain anonymous. We also ensure that all last names and faces in the submissions will be blurred out.”
I spent a long while going through these, even literally laughing out loud a quite a few of them:)
…while at work – be warned, some of the things on there are definitely not suitable for work (NSFW)
But it just goes to show you, some of the things people are willing to put on Facebook are nuts, and some people are unintentionally hilarious :))
Here are a few that I particularly liked –
Chris’ Views on Gravity
Kevin, From Boredom to Heartbreak…but he aight
Fetish much?
No Home Training…At All
Most Definitely NOT racist!
I have soooooo been there…
Watch What You Say and Where You Say It
Photos Provided By Facebook and Lamebook Respectively – corny captions provided by me🙂
Meh, everybody else was blogging about it, so I figured I would too 😛
You mean Twitter AND FaceBook?!?! The Social Web Weeps!
It seems that Twitter is currently down – Not only that, but the reason for the popular social site going offline is because of an ongoing DDoS attack, which has been confirmed by the Twitter staff on their blog…What is a Denial of Service attack you ask? Ask wiki🙂 – but yea, it can get pretty nasty.
Damn Shame. I was trying to get my tweet on when it happened.
As you know, when Twitter ain’t behaving, most go over to Facebook to hang out for a little while…but guess what, Facebook has been suffering too. It’s probably due to all that Twitter traffic redirecting there…
Even More Sites Having Issues With DDoS Attacks
UPDATE: As the news developed, it seems that numerous sites were hit by a DoS and not just twitter – Facebook has reported that their problems also stemmed from a DDoS attack, as well as LiveJournal, which confirmed they too were in an ongoing battle.
Per some quick fingered wikipedia editor: “On August 6th, 2009 several social networking sites, including Twitter, Facebook, Livejournal, and Google blogging pages were hit by DDoS attacks. Although Google came through with only minor set-backs, these attacks left Twitter crippled for hours and Facebook did eventually restore service although some users still experienced trouble.”
So this begs the question: Just who is trying to cripple the social net…and WHY? Some believe it’s from across seas – some pointing to Iran (see priors) and some pointing to the current Russia/Georgia conflict – and a few other theories.
Honestly, DDoS attacks are EXTREMELY common, and can be done by damn near anyone – what I find a little scary about this one is the size and scope of it – think about it – Twitter was hit the hardest. Some use Twitter as the core or an integral aspect of their businesses these days, as well as Facebook. What happens to a twitter dependent business…when there is no Twitter?
UDATE 2: Twitter adds some words to the situation here on their Twitter blog
CNet says that it might just well be connected to the Russia/Georgia thing mentioned above in a news post – Supposedly, this could have possibly all been done to target one person…
Anyway, the speculation continues – as usual, here are some links for ya if you just don’t wanna take my word for it:)
Twitter’s Blog about What’s Happening
Check out Mashable, they got all this covered, especially my nigga Pete, he (was) all over this one – Ben and Adam had the last words
![ts_solarflare_free[1]](https://silenciobarnes.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/ts_solarflare_free1-220x160.jpg "ts_solarflare_free[1]")
1 Mar 2019
1 CommentHow to Download Your Facebook Data, and Why You Should
You give Facebook a lot of information, probably more information than you think. You also have a ton of content on Facebook that belongs to you. This is your information and your property. Here is how you can download your Facebook data, and why you should.
How to Download Your Facebook Data
Facebook made downloading your data easy and painless.
Downloading Your Facebook Data from the Facebook Website
1. Go to facebook.com – If you’re on a tablet or phone, go to the website, not the app. Although, you can do this from the app as well. See below.
2. Go to settings or use this link: https://www.facebook.com/settings – you can find the settings option in the dropdown list in the upper right.
3. Choose Your Facebook Information on the left side of the screen. Alternatively, this link should take you straight there: https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=your_facebook_information
You should see several options, including:
You may want to spend a little time perusing some of these options. You’ll likely find a number of interesting things concerning the data Facebook has, and what you can do to manage that information. Don’t be afraid to poke around and nosey. After all, this is your stuff.
4. Choose the option to Download Your Information.
Once you’re in the download screen, you will see instructions for creating a package and how to download it when it’s ready. You don’t have to download everything. You can choose from a rather expansive list of options.
You can choose to only download your posts and media. You can choose to download your location and search history. You can pick a date range and all the messenger messages from that range. This part is up to you. You can go through this process as often as you want, so there’s no need to think you’ll leave something behind.
For most people, choosing to download as HTML is the best option. Facebook also allows you to download JSON file, but that’s only for tech-savvy people or people who know how to import Facebook data into other applications.
That’s really all there is to it. After you make your selections and click Create File, you will have to wait. You will receive a Facebook notification when the file is ready to download.
Downloading Your Facebook Data from the Facebook App
You can go through this whole process from the app. However, I wouldn’t recommend downloading the final file to your phone or tablet unless you have the space for it.
1. Open the Facebook App
2. Go to the triple bar/hamburger button ≡ – Usually located in the top right
3. Scroll to Settings & Privacy, and then choose Settings
4. Scroll to the Your Facebook Information section – From there, everything works just about the same as it does from the website.
What to Do With Your Facebook Data Download
The download will come to you as a compressed ZIP file. Most computers can open these natively. Otherwise, you can use WinRAR or 7-zip to open the file. Inside you will have an Index HTML file and folders with your posts and other information as HTML files.
Any media, such as pictures or videos, will also come in a folder. You can view these things individually. Any browser will open an HTML file. The best way to go about it is to unzip the entire folder, open the index.html file, then go from there.
Depending on how much you chose to include, the download file can turn out quite large. Make sure you have the data connection to download itall and the space for it on your computer or other device .
If you don’t want to download your data, you can choose the Access Your Information option and just look through it all. You can even see a history of all the ads you clicked on. Ain’t that something?
Why You Should Download Your Facebook Data Right Now
Facebook keeps hitting the news about privacy concerns. All that data the platform collects is your information; you should know what Facebook has of yours to share with advertisers and data collectors.
Courts and other legal entities can subpoena Facebook for access to this data. You should know what’s in there before others do.
Privacy concerns aside, there are numerous other reasons to download this data. Having a local copy of all your posts can help you more easily search through them. If you’re looking for posts that you want to use for something else, this is the best way to do it. For example, if you posted poetry all over your timeline, and in groups, this can help you find them all.
Maybe you just want your collection of pictures or videos without trying to download all of them one at a time. Remember, this is your stuff, your intellectual property, and your material. Shouldn’t you have a copy of your stuff?
One major consideration for downloading your data is if you plan to leave the platform. If you’re going to delete your account, make sure you grab your stuff on the way out.
One final thing: Keep in mind that Facebook changes its UI all the time. This article is based on the design and settings as they are right now. Things can change in the future. If you can’t find the option to download your Facebook data, keep looking. It’s in there somewhere.
Share this:
Like this: