How to Export Messages From Facebook to Google Drive
If you want to export your Facebook posts for any reason (I’ll leave it up to you to decide why), you can now dump them and your notes in Google Doc, Blogger, or WordPress.
Personally, I don’t need to store all the nonsense I’ve said on Facebook over the past 16 years, but I’m going to show you how to export your Facebook life to Google Docs. From there, you can do whatever you want with your memories. (I recommend uploading your digital life to a folder on your computer where you keep all your other important and regularly backed up backups, and never look at them again.)
To get started, open your Facebook and go to the settings page , then go to the ” Your Facebook Information ” section. There you will want to click on “View” next to the new line “Send a copy of your information” . Pay attention to the wording: you are not moving or deleting old messages, but simply copying them to another location. To get rid of them completely, you will have to either view them manually and delete (ha!), Or delete your entire Facebook account .
On the next screen, select Entries (or Notes). You cannot choose which Facebook posts or notes you want to transfer; anything you create on your Facebook profile (excluding posts posted to groups or other pages) will be copied. Also note that this will only copy your posts, not your friends’ posts on your Facebook page – a big difference.
Select your destination (Google Docs or WordPress / Jetpack) and click Next . As always, you will need to authenticate with the service and grant Facebook various permissions:
And as soon as you do that, your request will be added to the queue. Yes, this is not an instant translation, but my translation request is currently being processed and I expect to receive an email and / or Facebook notification when everything is ready.
Fingers crossed, I decided that there were suddenly 10,000 new documents left in my Google Drive. While you wait, you can also go back and repeat the process for your Facebook notes. If you’re ambitious, you might even start copying your photos to another service.