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Thursday, November 11, 2010

What’s your Facebook Footprint?

Did you know you can now download every wall post, every response, every comment, every poke, every photo or video you’ve ever put on Facebook? What’s your Facebook Footprint?

Now you can back up every misstep, every faux pas, every whoopsie you’ve ever made in public.

On October 7th, Facebook announced it would begin to let people download all the personal information they’ve put on Facebook. All you need to do is:

Top Menu: Account

Choose Account Settings

At the bottom of the page is Download your Information

Fill in your password and click Continue

It will take a bit of time for Facebook to compile it, and once you get a note that it’s ready you’ll have to prove it’s your data, but boom - one nicely organized zip file with all your assets. You prove it’s your data by identifying friends in photos not in your account, so a hacker would have to know you fairly well to download the file.

Off you go!