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Archive Facebook wall posts, status updates, photos and more

An alternate way to archive all your old Facebook activity is this new Firefox extension: Archive Facebook. Basically what it does is save you the hassle of going to your profile page, scrolling to the bottom and clicking “Older posts” over and over again until you get right back to when you first joined Facebook (and yes, I have done this in the past!).

From that, you could either just print it or convert this massive webpage into a PDF file and then print that. It’s not the most user-friendly of extensions as you need to leave your browser to do all the archiving and can’t browse the net at the same time as it’s doing the archiving but it is another way of getting a record of your Facebook wall posts, status updates, photos (albeit thumbnails), comments and the like.

I tested this and just archived the last six months of my Facebook page and ended up with a 74 (!) page PDF. A special print stylesheet would make this much more suitable for printing and greatly reduce the number of pages required.

Exporting and seeing all your old Facebook statuses

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).