How Facebook Media Transfer to Websites Works

If you wish to quit using Facebook for some reason, you definitely need to save your images, posts, and maybe something else. Facebook decided to be friendlier to you and enabled a data transfer feature that makes it easy to directly transfer your posts, notes,  photos, videos to Google Docs, Blogger, and WordPress.com. According to the company’s report, more websites are to be added to the feature soon.

Other Options?

Earlier this year, Facebook released an option to download your entire data, including even marketing tracking info in a neat ZIP file or send them to a compatible could storage, including Dropbox, Google Photos, Koofr, or Backblaze.

Why So Friendly?

Facebook wasn’t known as a very friendly company to some extent and regulators accused the company of using its monopolistic influence to suppress competitors. One of the ways to hold users from switching to other platforms was not allowing them to transfer their data to other platforms. Multiple lawsuits made the company change its attitude.

How to Transfer Your Files?

Now, let’s figure out how to do the transfer via a browser or a mobile application. Both versions have it the same way.

  1. Click the down arrow icon in the top right corner of your Facebook page if you open it on a computer.
  2. Select  “Settings & Privacy” > “Settings: > “Your Facebook Information.”
  3. Now click “Transfer a Copy of Your Information” and confirm your intention by entering your Facebook password.
  4. After that, you can choose what type of content you want to transfer. You are allowed to select particular photos and videos, but there’s no option to transfer notes and posts without downloading them all at once.
  5. In the next window, choose a platform for data transfer.
  6. Confirm the transfer in the account of the selected service(s) to let it proceed and wait for the data to be transferred.

The whole process takes the same steps in the mobile version.

Now They Are Really Yours

At last, Facebook admitted that user-generated content is users’ legal property and they have the right to do anything they want with it. After transferring your posts and data you can delete your account permanently. There will be no painful fresh start on a new platform as all your good ol’ posts will already be there. How do you like the new option? Does it make the Internet as free as it should be? Can you suggest any other improvements towards user-friendliness and anti-monopolization of social networks? Share the news and join the chat below!