It's finally here... a tool to archive your Facebook account. I've talked about the development of this tool in previous posts. It's a Firefox add-on called ArchiveFacebook which allows you to create a complete off-line, browseable archive of your Facebook account. ArchiveFacebook will archive your Wall, photos, messages... your entire life which has been recorded in Facebook.
You may not believe this, but Facebook will not always be around. Your Facebook account will not always be accessible. It's up to you to archive your data before it lands in the big bit-bucket in the sky.
Thanks to Carlton Northern who worked on this project for the past 6 months and to Michael Nelson who helped direct the development work.
Just saw this article, and it reminded me of your post. By the way, I tried out the archive plugin; I'm not sure how long it would take to archive a normal account, nor exactly how it works once archived, but it's a great idea. And here's the article from the facebook blog:
ReplyDeletehttp://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=163091042130
Thanks for the link, Lloyd. I'm giving a presentation this week about ArchiveFacebook, and I'll definitely share this Facebook blog post in the presentation.
ReplyDeleteIt can take a very long time for the add-on to work, depending on how long you've used Facebook. Once it's done, the web pages making up your account are stored on your hard drive. You can browse through them just like you would your live Facebook account.