Download Your Facebook Profile To Your Computer In Three Simple Steps – It’s Crucial!

Oh, so you love Facebook just like us and everybody else. But what if someday an unfortunate upshot blocks you from accessing your Facebook profile? And you didnot backup facebook contacts or anything else. All those invaluable photo memories, videos and your profile data would be lost forever – in case the account recovery fails, which is often a high certainty.

To allow users to capture their fond facebook memories and profile data, Facebook has rolled out a new feature that allows one to backup Facebook profile data on to your computer. This way, at least one has access to one’s profile data including photos, videos, status updates, events, wall posts, friend lists and much more.

Using this feature, you can save a backup of the aforementioned profile data on your computer and view it at a later instance. In this post, we bring you three simple steps to backup Facebook data on your computer. Hit past the break for step-by-step instructions to configure these settings on your Facebook profile.

Basically, the process is extremely simple. 1. Just visit your Facebook Account 2. Configure Settings 3. Request a download. But, let us illustrate the  procedure in an even simpler way – that’s how I went through to backup my facebook data. Here are the steps to follow.

1. Log in to your Facebook account.

2. On the top-right of your Facebook homescreen, click the Account tab and select Account Settings from the menu.

3. Under the Settings tab on your My Account page, there should be a ‘Download Your Information’ Tab. Just click‘learn more’ to proceed.

4. And Select ‘Download’ from the Request My Download prompt that appears on the screen.

 

Crucial Measure  : Facebook Profile Backup

Once, you are done with this, please be informed that the profile data will be available as a downloadable zip file, but the process may take some time and the status appears as ‘Pending’.

Meanwhile, you can continue to use your Facebook account until you are notified that the download is now available.

5. Once, you receive an email from Facebook confirming that your download is ready, you are required to visit the link provided in the mail and verify your Facebook password on the succeeding page.

6. Enter your password, click Continue and select ‘Download Now’ as shown below.

Bravo, you’re done.

Note : If you don’t find the “Download Your Information” feature in your account, exercise a little patience for theFacebook profile backup feature is being rolled out in batches. Thousands of fb users have already downloaded their profiles, and realizing the need for backup  - we hope you too will.


P.S Special Thanks to Syed Khaled for this blog post.