Facebook is a well known social networking platform to all. It is the place where you meet and connect your friends easily. On facebook we upload tonnes of data and share them to our friends almost everyday. So why dont you backup all your data that you have uploaded since ages and browse them locally ? The following tutorial explains you how exactly can you do it !
How To Backup Your Facebook Data Instantly and Browse Offline :
1. Sign in to your Facebook Account and Go to Account and click on it.
2. Now click go to Account settings and click on it .
3. You will see a option below saying “Download a copy ” Of your Facebook Data. Go ahead and click on it !
4. Now you will see a Start My Archive button . Read the terms and cautions once you are done click it!
5. Then depending on your data size facebook data backup status remains pending and finally you receive a email from facebook in which you have to verify and login .
Note: You will receive email to the Email address that you have provided to register for facebook account .
6. Finally a zip file will be available for download . Go ahead and download it !
7. This zip file contains all your facebook data . So once it is downloaded extract it and then you will find an index.html file which you can open with your web browser locally i.e, without actually needing an internet connection !
Note: You will receive only your information and note that the comments made by you on other’s posts cant be viewed. You dont even get your friends information on facebook who dint allow access for this feature !
You can also see my tutorial on How to Download Facebook Photo Albums Instantly which is a better way to backup your worthy facebook photos.
I think for such a giant like facebook it is not very important to manage backups since facebook all the time do that for us. Still if some one wants to do that I think this very nice article to read.
Hi there. Nice blog, very informative.
You’re right, the native back-up of Facebook is very useful, but also a little limited. You have to wait for them to let you know when it’s ready and then you have to download it. And once you’ve downloaded it, there isn’t a great deal you can do with it. For a lot of people that won’t be an issue and they will just be happy that they have a copy of their photos stored somewhere on their hard-drive.
If you want something a bit more special with added functionality, you could try SocialSafe – your Facebook and Twitter offline journal. Backing up Facebook profiles, Twitter accounts and now Facebook pages, all of your content is presented in a searchable offline journal. You can view photos, wall posts and updates with all of the comments and tags as a diary. Either search for a word, phrase or person, or use the calendar to jump to any date in your social networking past to see what you were doing.
As I said, Facebook’s own backup will be enough for a lot of people, but for those who want to really take control of their Facebook and Twitter content, SocialSafe should be worth a look.
For more info go to http://socialsafe.net