Facebook now lets users export data!

It looks like Facebook may finally be coming around. After quite a few problems with privacy lately, Facebook recently unveiled several new privacy features and options which seem to have users in mind. As usual, several of the changes are opt-out, meaning all users are automatically signed up for them, and must manually turn it off. More about this in a future post.

One of the biggest and most surprising features, though, is data exporting. In a huge shift from the way Facebook has previously worked, the site now allows users to perform a mass export, and save all of their data themselves. The export feature creates one zip file that contains all of your status updates, notes, pictures, links, comments, etc. and lets users save it to their local computers.