Social Archivist » app http://www.socialarchivist.com Mon, 10 Jan 2011 02:26:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Exporting and seeing all your old Facebook statuses http://www.socialarchivist.com/2009/08/20/exporting-all-your-old-facebook-statuses/ http://www.socialarchivist.com/2009/08/20/exporting-all-your-old-facebook-statuses/#comments Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:48:50 +0000 Rachel Cunliffe http://socialarchivist.com/?p=19 If you would like to try out my application to export your old Facebook statuses, click here – once you’ve given the application the right permissions, a CSV file will be downloaded. It’s very much in beta, so please leave me feedback.

I am currently testing out a little Facebook application I’ve written to export and save all my old status updates (I’m surprised no-one else has done this?). I am only able to pull out ones since August last year – not all of them, even though they are stored in Facebook.
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I recently saved all my old Facebook statuses in an incredibly painful way* – which made me realise how un-user-friendly it is to look back in time on Facebook. There’s no “browse by month” navigation like on many blogs. While there is a feed of your latest Facebook statuses, it only shows your last 10 statuses.

* I clicked on my profile page, then painfully kept clicking “Older posts” until I finally got back to when I joined Facebook in early 2007 and then saved this massive webpage to my computer (~10MB).

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