News is just in that Facebook has added a new feature to allow users to download their profile information to their computer. The feature is called download your information, and available in the user’s account settings.
To access the new feature, users need to click on Account in the upper right corner of the Facebook profile screen and select Account Settings from the opening context menu.
Download Your Information is a new link below Account Security in the Facebook Account Settings.
This new tool can be used to download all profile information, including videos and photos, wall posts, messages, friend lists and other contents to the local computer system.
The download needs to be requested. This is an automatic process that may take a while, depending a lot on the user’s activity on Facebook. It will take longer for accounts with lots of postings, photos and videos.
Facebook users are notified via email that their download is ready. The email contains a link pointing to the download. To download the information to the local computer, the account password needs to be entered.
The data is then downloaded to the PC as a zip file. This file needs to be unpacked before the information can be accessed. The downloaded information are a basic version of the Facebook profile, a local Facebook profile so to speak without the interaction possibilities.
It links to all relevant information in a sidebar. Here it is possible to open wall posts,photos, the list of friends, notes, events, messages and videos.
Take a look at the official video announcing Download Your Information below.
Take a look at the official video announcing Download Your Information below.
The new feature is rolled out to all Facebook accounts in the coming days. This option may be interesting for users who want to close their Facebook account permanently. Before doing so, they could download all relevant information from Facebook so that they still have access to their photos, videos, messages and other data they have posted or received on Facebook.
