If you are finally ready to quit Facebook once and for all, you should take your data — all your posts and messages, photos and videos, friends and groups and so on — with you before you go.

Did you know that Facebook allows you to download a copy of your information? This can include everything from the posts you’ve shared to your payment history ...

With all the news about Facebook recently, you might be wondering, what exactly does Facebook know about me from my profile? Sure, you can peruse your profile online, but that doesn’t tell the whole ...

Facebook keeps a treasure trove of information on you, which goes all the way back to when you first started to use the social network. You can download your own ...

When members of Congress asked Mark Zuckerberg earlier this month who owns Facebook users’ personal data, the Facebook CEO had a convenient response. Eight times during his testimony, he cited a ...

Pasted the link and nothing happened? Here are seven fixes for failed Facebook downloads, plus backup tools.

You've likely heard by now about Cambridge Analytica, the shadowy, Trump-affiliated data analysis firm that reportedly siphoned off information belonging to 50 million Facebook users, according to The ...

We put more of our lives on Facebook than we realize or like to admit. If you lose access, you lose data…so back it up. You may or may not realize it, but you put a lot of your life on Facebook. The ...

For the past 13 years, I’ve given the platform my photos, my videos, my likes, and untold hours of my time. Sifting through it all was amusing and surprising—and weirdly sad. My own download held the ...