How to Archive Facebook Data

Today technology is an integral aspect of modern society. We place more importance on our phones and computers than ever before. Therefore, as a precaution many people back up their computers to external hard drives or online cloud storage. With this rise in technology social media sites have also taken over, and social media has surpassed porn as the most popular activity online. With all this time spent on social media, people are creating and sharing a great deal of content daily. With Facebook being the most popular social network, many users are seeing the importance of archiving and backing up their Facebook data.
If you are thinking of closing your Facebook account and don't want to lose all of your data, or if you just want to download and backup your Facebook data just in case, here is an easy way of using the Firefox extension, ArchiveFacebook, to backup and archive your Facebook information. ArchiveFacebook allows you to backup Facebook on your local hard drive, and browse your archives.
ArchiveFacebook backs up:
• Photos
• Messages
• Friends/Friend Lists
• Activity Stream
• Notes
• Events
• Groups
• Info
To do this, take the following steps:
1. Disable or uninstall Scrapbook:
Scrapbook and Archive Facebook should not be ran simultaneously, as the Scrapbook Firefox extension may cause instability.
2. Get a Vanity URL:
If you don't already have a vanity URL in place for your profile, ArchiveFacebook requires you set one up before you begin. Unless ArchiveFacebook has updated, you need to be able to access Facebook via www.facebook.com/YourName.
3. Install the ArchiveFacebook Extension:
Go to Mozilla Firefox add-on gallery and install ArchiveFacebook. Once you complete the installation process you will see an "archiveFB" menu item (between the bookmarks and the tools menu).
4. Backup and Archive:
To begin, go to ArchiveFB and select Show in Sidebar, and open the sidebar. With Facebook open in your browser click on ArchiveFB and select Archive. You will be redirected to your Facebook page and a dialogue box will appear, once you hit OK the backup process will begin. A dialogue box displaying the retrieval process will show you the progress. ArchiveFB retrieves your stream in reverse chronological order - therefore you can hit cancel at any time, and your archive will extend back in time only till that date.
Upon completing the retrieval process, archiveFB will start downloading your Facebook data - a process that can take up to several hours (depending on your connection and the how extensively you used Facebook).
Once the backup and archive is complete, it will appear in your sidebar. When you are done you can browse through your archives. You'll notice that the URL is a "file://" - which shows that you are looking through a local copy on your hard disk.
Have you backed up your Facebook data?
Blane C. Russell is the President of Social Eyes Marketing, a Social Media Marketing company based in Boise, Idaho. For more information about how you can leverage the power of social media marketing for your own business visit http://getsocialeyes.com/

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