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Download Your Information
Overview:Facebook is now offering people the ability to download a copy of the information they haveshared on their profile. With a single click and simple authentication process to ensure it is infact you requesting to download your profile, a ZIP file of the content will be available to youthat is easily browsable. Within the file you will have access to your profile information, a list of your friends, photos, videos and other content youve shared on your profile.Highlights:
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comprehensive copy of the information you have shared on Facebook can now bedownloaded in a ZIP file.
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his file and the information contained within it, is designed for an individuals use andnot for developers or other services.
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he new tool is accessible from the account menu in the upper right hand corner of yourFacebook profile, under
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ccount Settings.
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efore you can download any data we require authentication, including passwordverification, an email confirmation and in some instances passing a captcha.
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Here is a quick view of how you can browse your Facebook file:
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aw data and simple, browsable format for viewing your content.
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Data that may be included in the file includes:
profile information
list of your friends
view of your wall
your photos albums
your videos
notes you have created
events you have rsvp-ed yes to
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:Why is Facebook offering this service?One aspect of controlling what you share is the ability to have a copy of your information nomatter where youve shared it, whether that is on Facebook or any other service on the web.We launched Facebook Platform to give people a powerful way to control how they shareinformation and have social experiences all over the web.
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y enabling people to download acopy of the information they have shared on Facebook they have greater control of theirexperience on the site.Why would someone want a copy of the data they have on Facebook?
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here are several potential use cases. For example, what if your hard drive was destroyed takingall the photos you had saved to your computer? With this new feature you will now be able torecover all your old photos that had been posted to Facebook and save them to your newcomputer.Why arent you allowing people to download friends contact information in the file?
We focused on providing a way for normal people to download a copy of their profile. Friendscontact information isn't something which is part of your profile today. Like all of our products,we'll continue to iterate in the future.We also felt it was important to give people the ability to copy the information and content thatis difficult to obtain or may not even exist off of Facebook. For example, your wall, statusupdates and Facebook messages arent anywhere else but on Facebook.Screenshots:People can now easily get a copy of the information theyve shared on Facebook with DownloadYour Information.
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he file includes a copy of your entire profile on Facebook.
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he download includes an easily browsable H
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