Download Your Data from Facebook

Optionally you can deselect things you don't care about losing

This may take a few days if you have a lot of media or had an account for many years

This file format will be good to have incase you ever want/need to upload this data to another platform.

Optionally you can deselect things you don't care about losing

Facebook will not download 'Photos of You' (aka photos you've been tagged in) even when you download all your information.  This holds a lot of memories so I find this step is essential before deleting FB.

*Note: If it seems to be stuck on "Indexing" you probably have not clicked the "Photos of you" tab.  Even if it's already highlighted and looks selected you must click it.  Check your URL if should have /photosof, not just {your_name}/photos

*Also if you cannot find the browser extension in your toolbar click on the extension icon right next to the icon pictured.  You can then select the Pin icon to keep it in your toolbar.

*Note: If a new page does not open again - click on the extension again and you should a line below the button...

You recently exported ___ photos. Click here to view and save.

If you'd like to download videos that you were tagged in you will have to manually do this.

If you managed pages, events, apps etc. and you want them to stay active - you need to transfer the admin privileges to another user.

You should have...

• 1 HTML package

• 1 JSON package

• 1 folder with the photos of you (default name is album_files)

• 1 HTML file (default name is album.html)

In the example photo below - I have 2 folders of HTML data, 1 folder of JSON data, 1 folder containing photos of me, and 1 html file with the photos of me.

Reminder:  You may want to have this folder in a place that is hooked up to a backup (ie. iCloud Drive, Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.)

Deactivation:

This can be temporary.

Your account will be disabled and your name and photos will be removed from most things you've shared. You'll be able to continue using Messenger.

Deletion:

This is permanent.

When you delete your Facebook account, you won't be able to retrieve the content or information that you've shared on Facebook. Your Messenger and all of your messages will also be deleted.