Facebook makes it pretty easy with a “Download Your Information” service. Here are the simple steps to saving your Friends list, photos, videos, posts and other Facebook data on your desktop, on a CD or in the cloud (as you prefer.) First, make sure you are logged in to your Facebook Account.
You may have hundreds of friends on Facebook, but—let's face it—they aren't all close friends. Some may be virtual co-workers or acquaintances you barely remember. If these people are taking up valuable space on your News Feed—but you don't want to hide them entirely—you can select the friends you want to appear first on the feed when they post. You can also choose to designate a friend as a 'close friend' and receive notifications each time your close friend posts to Facebook.
- 8 Quick Ways to Download All Your Facebook Photos and Albums. BY JP Zhang Updated Oct 24, 2017 • 33 comments. You know, it’s easy to save a single photo on Facebook. Besides media files, you can also export your friends’ list and chat logs. However, the quality of exported photos is kind of poor, they are not at the same size compared.
- You should now see a list of your Facebook friends along with the dates on which you became friends with them. Important reminder: As I mentioned earlier, if you have a lot of friends it will take a LOT of paper to print the entire list.
Select People to Appear First in Your News Feed
To choose the people (or Pages) that you want to see first on your Facebook News Feed:
Click the arrow in the top right corner of your Facebook page.
Select News Feed Preferences from the drop-down menu.
Click Prioritize who to see first to open a screen that displays thumbnail images for all your friends and Pages.
Click the thumbnails of the people you want to see at the top of your News Feed when they post. A star is added to the thumbnail.
When you have made all your selections, click the menu that says All at the top of the thumbnails and select People you see first from the drop-down menu to display the thumbnails you have selected.
When you are satisfied with your selections, click the Done button to save your changes.
You can add up to 30 people or Pages to your See First list. The selections you make are not ranked; that is, the person you choose first isn't necessarily seen first. However, all the See First posts will appear at the top of your News Feed.
Use the See First Feature on a Profile or Page
If you are on a person's profile or a page, you can add them to your See First list from there.
Click Follow if you aren't already following the profile or Page.
Go to the Following or Liked button near the cover photo.
Select See First.
When you put friends on your See First list, they are not notified that you have done so, nor do you receive notifications when they post.
How to Add a Person to Your Close Friend List
Putting someone on your See First list is different from identifying them as a close friend. When you add a friend to your Close Friends list, you receive a notification every time they post on Facebook. To add someone to your Close Friends list:
Go to the friend's profile page.
Hover over the Friends button.
Choose Close Friends from the drop-down menu.
If you prefer not to receive notifications whenever your close friend's post, you can turn this feature off at any time.
Facebook is trying to create one inbox to rule them all, but for those of us who don't trust Facebook enough to give them all our communication, taking control of that information is an important step toward retaining your communication freedom.
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Facebook has taken the stance that the only Facebook data that belongs to you is your information, and that your friends' information—like their email addresses—belongs solely to them. As TechCrunch points out, that stance doesn't hold much water when Facebook also gives big companies like Microsoft and Yahoo access to the very data they say belongs exclusively to your friends.
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Facebook has made gestures toward openness lately, but they're still keeping their users' email addresses to themselves (and huge partners). Luckily the access they're giving to Yahoo makes it easy to export all of the email addresses of your Facebook friends. Here's how to export all of your Facebook friends' email addresses in a few simple steps. We've mentioned this method in our guide to consolidating your contact list, but with all the Facebook messaging stuff going on, it seems like a good time for a step-by-step reminder. You can either watch the walkthrough in the video above or follow the step-by-step below.
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Step One: Sign Up for (or Sign Into) Yahoo Mail
Point your browser to Yahoo Mail. If you have an account, you can sign in here. If not, click the Create New Account button and fill out the signup information.
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Note: If you want a clean backup of your Facebook friends' email, I'd recommend creating a new account even if you already have a Yahoo Mail account.
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Step Two: Import Your Facebook Friends' Email Addresses
Now that you've signed up for (or signed into) your Yahoo Mail account, you're ready to import email from Facebook. It's really easy to do. If you just signed up, you should see a prompt to import contacts from Facebook, Gmail, Hotmail, and other sources. (If you already had a Yahoo Mail account, just click over to the Import Contacts tool.) Click on Facebook, grant Yahoo access to your Facebook account, and then just wait as the contacts are exported from Facebook and imported to Yahoo.
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Step Three: Export Your Facebook Email Addresses from Yahoo
Once the import completes, you can export those email addresses in a number of formats. Again, back at the Yahoo Address Book, just click on Tool -> Export (or just click here), and click the Export Now button next to the export type you'd prefer.
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Bonus Step Four: Import the Facebook Email to Gmail
I use Gmail, and tested importing my Facebook contacts' email to my Gmail account like so:
- Export the Yahoo! CSV from Yahoo. Gmail can likely handle a lot of different file types for contact import, but CSV is plain text and works like a charm.
- Load Gmail Contacts, then click on More actions -> Import, then upload the CSV file you downloaded from Yahoo. You can optionally add these contacts to a group (I called them Facebook Contacts).
- Click Import and you're done.
That's all there is to it.
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