How to Backup Facebook Photos, Videos, and Text

How to Backup Facebook Photos, Videos, and Text

Facebook offers all its users the ability to backup their photos, videos, and text.

1.    Click Account and go to Account Settings.

2.    Click the Learn more option next to Download Your Information.

3.    Click the Download button.

4.    You will then be prompted with a message indicating that it takes some time to collect all your information. Once that information is ready for download you'll be sent an e-mail with a link to a compressed .zip file containing all your personal information.

Bonus Tip: You can also setup an IFTTT recipe to automatically backup any photo you've been tagged in on Facebook.

IFTTT( if this then that) :

The web service if this then that (IFTTT) is a fantastic free online service that allows you setup tasks that will occur when another specified task occurs. For example, if the weather for your area reports that it is going to rain you could setup an if this then that recipe to send a text message to your phone to pack an umbrella. This services works with dozens of other popular online services including :

Craigslist, Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox, Gmail, Flickr, Foursquare, and many more. Below is a listing of some of the popular recipes currently listed on the site.

• Every time you are tagged in a photo on Facebook, it will be sent to Dropbox
• Greet new twitter follower
• Text to escape (send a text to have a phone call to escape what you're doing)
• Google Plus to Twitter
• If I upload a photo to Facebook then also upload that photo to Picasa
• Wake-up call
• Save my email attachments to Dropbox
• Rent Reminder
• Get an SMS alert before any event starts on your Google Calendar

Visit iftt.com to setup your own recipes