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Facebook (Meta) stores extensive data about your account activity, including posts, messages, interactions, location history, and ad preferences. Downloading your Facebook data helps you:
- Review Your Digital Footprint: See what Meta has stored about you.
- Back Up Important Posts and Messages: Save personal content, including photos and videos.
- Improve Privacy Control: Decide what information you want to keep or delete.
Steps to Download Your Personal Information from Facebook
Time to Complete: 5–10 minutes
What It Protects Against
- Data Loss: Back up important posts, messages, and media.
- Privacy Concerns: Review what information Facebook stores about you.
- Unauthorized Data Collection: Decide what data to delete from your Facebook account.
Recommended Product: Privacy Protection Tools
Use a data removal service like DeleteMe to further protect your digital footprint.
Additional Tips
- Review and delete unnecessary data from your Facebook account.
- Adjust your Ad Preferences under Settings to limit tracking.
- Use Off-Facebook Activity Settings to manage how websites and apps share your data with Meta.
For more privacy tips, check out our guide on How to Delete Your Google Account
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