So, if you want to know how much data these social media giants were storing or if you are deleting your account from these social media sites and want to download your data before exiting, you can do that too. Here is a small, effortless and straightforward guide to download all your data from Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
Download Facebook data
Facebook has the highest amount of data of their users as we share almost everything on it. Facebook even track your location and save that data for ads recommendation and more. You will be able to download every bit of your information which you have associated with your account like videos, photos, messages and more.
Here are the steps to download your Facebook data in an archive format
Once you download the data, you need to extract the archive file to get access to the data. All the media files are in a folder, and the messages data and statuses will be in HTML format.
Download Instagram Data
Instagram is a part of Facebook after the acquisition, and every new feature in Facebook comes to Instagram instantly. Which means you can download your Instagram data in the same format as Facebook, here is a little guide. Instagram also takes the respective amount of time to get the data ready for download; you will get all the videos and photos you posted on the Instagram, the other data will be available in a .json format which you will be able to open in any text editor like notepad.
Download Twitter data
Twitter takes the most time to retrieve data for you but at least you can download your Twitter data too using these simple steps.
Conclusion
Whatever your reason is to download your data from your social media account, but this thing makes us realize that how much these websites know about you. And how much data they have about you. After the whole privacy policy refresh, we can feel safe for the moment, but my advice to all the people using social media is that think twice before creating an account on these new emerging social media apps and websites and sharing anything with them.
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