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How to DOWNLOAD your FACEBOOK Data
Hey everyone. In this quick video, I'm going to show you how you could archive all your information on Facebook. So I've been on Facebook since 2004, and Facebook allows you just through the setting to download that entire archive. So if you want it to delete or deactivate your Facebook, it's always a great idea too.
Take that archive and put it on your computer on a hard drive wherever you want. So you don't lose that information. A lot of us have spent a lot of years on Facebook, so you don't want to just delete and deactivate your account and lose all that information. So I'm going to show you how to do that archive right now.
If it's your first time here, I make social media and tech tutorials five times a week. So please consider subscribing let's jump in here so I could show you how to do it right on your desktop. To archive and download your entire Facebook history. Jump onto your Facebook account login and on any page on Facebook, on the desktop, you should see this down arrow, click that, and then go down to settings, go ahead and press setting and this is where you download a copy of your Facebook data. So let me go ahead and download it. Then I'm going to open it up to show you what Facebook has on you in a second. So let me go ahead and press download here. It'll take you to this page, download your information, get a copy of what you've shared on Facebook.
So this is post videos, photos, messages, a lot of stuff on Facebook. So like I said, it's going to be stuff from 2004, 2005. Whenever I signed up all the way till now, I'll press start my archive. Now you need to type in your Facebook password and then it's going to say, this may take a little while I'm going to say that's okay.
Start my archive and the download request is going to go directly to my email. It did send me an email saying the download request has started, but once it's done, it's going to send that to the same email. I'm going to press okay here and when it's all done, it's going to send me an email and let me know that it's complete and I'll follow upright when it's done.
The download is finally complete. In my case, it took about 30 minutes and this is the email that Facebook sent me. So now I could click on the link. They sent me to go ahead and download that information. I'll just have to press this download archive and it'll start downloading right into my desktop here and it says it's 300 megabytes. So the zip file is 300 megabytes that's because of the video and the audio and whatever else, the photos that were downloaded and archives are heavily compressed. So now let me go ahead and open the zip file on a Mac. I'll just have to click the zip file. It'll start expanding the zip file.
So this is what is inside that zip file. If I look at their video, I will see all the videos that are uploaded over time. I'll see some of the thumbnails up uploaded overtime here and under photos, I'll see all the photos that have downloaded, divided into different folders like this. So I could go through and see all the different folders that have downloaded here from way back when and under messages.
I could see all the messages in HTML form. So if I open it, it looks something like this. So I could open each message by just pressing the space bar here or opening it in a browser. They all kind of look like this, but you'll see a ton of different messages here. It looks like. There are almost a thousand messages and there are more photos and videos inside the messages, folders too.
So under HTML, let me go ahead and launch one of these, just to show you what it looks like on the web browser, on the web browser, it looks like this. So you'll have all the applications that you've to give Facebook permission to. Those are all listed here. You also see what Facebook has on your profile.
These are all the things that Facebook knows about your family or education. Pretty much everything you've given us over the years. Some of your likes. I could go to my timeline and see my timeline from the very beginning to the very end I could see ads. These are the ad topics that I've clicked on that Facebook thinks I'm interested in.
So Facebook knows a lot about you through this, and now you could see exactly what they know about you. So messages poke. These are all the friends you have. All the friend requests you've sent, even all the people that you've deleted. On Facebook. You also know the contact information of not just everyone on Facebook.
But it has your contact from a lot of other sources. Some of these people are not even on my Facebook that I saw on there. My contact info, if this scares you, there are a few things you could do within Facebook to limit what it knows about you going in the future. But this stuff is already there and Facebook knows all this stuff about you already.
I hope this was helpful and you have all this information and you could utilize it to make your Facebook more secure and you have all this now downloaded to your desktop. So you could keep it. And if you want to delete Facebook, I have a video on how to do that. Now that you have all the information secured outside of Facebook, please give this video a thumbs up and subscribe to this channel.
I post social media and tech tutorials five times a week, and I hope to see you on the next video as always thank you for watching.