The title says it all. Now you can download a copy of your entire Facebook profile to your PC including your messages, wall, pictures, videos, notes, comments, posts etc... I must admit, this is one of the best features I have ever seen in a social networking website.
Now you don’t have to worry about your private data or the memories that can be accessed from Facebook if you are looking to deactivate or delete your Facebook account. But apparently this wasn’t the reason they created this feature. I think they are pushing other social networks to create the same feature so people can easily move their information from one network to another without the need to repost and upload everything one by one as before. Also it provides more offline control and monitoring of your activity on Facebook.
Every year, Facebook starts applying major changes on its platform starting September till December. This years changes aren’t so bad except for the “New Group” feature. Atleast this is how I find it. As for accessing your account from different open ID’s is brilliant and found in the Account Settings. And also many minor enhancements were applied that made Facebook more user friendly.
As for now, all you need to do to download your Facebook information is access your Facebook profile. Go to Account, click on Account Settings. Next to Download Your Information, click on Learn More. After you Click on Download, it takes from half hour to 2 hours for your entire Facebook profile to be ready in a Zip file format and ready to be download, however, you will go through a set of security confirmations before you continue. It starts with the entering the password of the Facebook account then a person has to identify 5 friends from his list tagged in their photos and you are allowed to skip two people only. After identifying 5 friends, You can initiate download. The size of the file is given under the final Download green button.
Below are pictures explaining the entire process of how to download your Facebook profile in order.
