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Friday
Jul292011

Leaving Facebook? Don't Forget Your Data

Depending on what report you hear Google+ now has somewhere between 18 and 20 million users. I'm seeing lots of friends hanging up a "Moved to Google+" sign on their Facebook walls. If you do the same, don't forget to pack your stuff and take it with you. Facebook allows you to download your data. All packed in a nice .zip file.

Log on to your Facebook account. Go to Account > Account Settings. On the bottom of that page you'll see "Download a copy of your Facebook data". Click on the link and follow the instructions. No muss no fuss.

You won't get a nice file of your contacts, but just about everything else gets pulled down into the .zip file. This isn't the perfect mechanism for transfering data to Google+ but it's a way to get a copy of all that data you've been handing over to Mark Z. all these years. 

 

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