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ArchiveFacebook – Save Content From Your Facebook Account

Why would you want archive your content?  Well, owing to the fact that Facebook has become a very important part of our lives and information about our friends, family, business contacts and acquaintances is stored in Facebook with no easy way to get it out.  Archiving content for future reference is just the right idea!

ArchiveFacebook developed by Carlton Northern, Michael L. Nelson and Frank McCown at the Old Dominion University, is a free Mozilla Firefox add-on tool that allows you to save content from your Facebook account directly to your hard drive so you can archive your photos, messages, activity stream, friends list, notes, events and groups.

Quite similar to SocialSafe, ArchiveFacebook is also a web-based application designed to enable Facebook users save content from their Facebook accounts directly onto their computers. It allows users archive photos, messages, activity stream, friends list, notes and events.

Save Content From Your Facebook Account

The best part about this tool is that even though it is a Firefox add-on, it does not necessarily require Firefox. All said and done, you might not be able to use certain plugins and add-ons if you are using Internet Explorer (IE) or some other browser.
The ArchiveFacebook add-on from the folks at Mozilla makes it exceedingly simple for you to forever archive all of your Facebook material. Archive your photos, messages, activity stream, friends list, notes, events and groups–right to your hard drive using a few simple steps!

You can begin by installing the ArchiveFacebook add-on and restarting Firefox. Once that’s done, an “ArchiveFacebook” menu option will be added to your Firefox, now log into your Facebook account and select ArchiveFB-Archive from the main menu and wait until the add-on archives your account. Once archiving is complete, you will see a Facebook menu option added to the ArchiveFacebook menu select the Facebook menu option to view your archived account.

In addition, you can easily save web pages from Facebook and view them exactly the same way you currently view them on Facebook.

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