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My years-long history of using Facebook as an idea log (often with long long posts) is what has stopped me from deleting altogether. This promises to be a simple way of downloading everything.

Facebook should be scared. It's at least X% of the lock-in they have on people.




You know you can just go and download your FB content, right? You follow a couple links, wait a while, and then they let you know when you can download your zip file.

I downloaded mine, read some stuff that made me think a bit, and then I finished up with deleting my account.


You can just download an archive of your Facebook data, no need to use this app:

https://www.facebook.com/help/212802592074644


There’s also a plethora of parsers available at this point to output your data to any format imaginable

https://github.com/ownaginatious/fbchat-archive-parser




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