Export Your Personal Information From Facebook

IF YOU QUIT Facebook, the service should delete all your personal data from its servers—eventually. But if you want to leave Facebook without losing your data, you can download a copy of your Facebook info fairly easily.

Navigate to your Facebook account settings, and you should see a 'Download a copy of your Facebook data' link at the bottom of the page. Click the link, and con­firm that you would like to have an archive created for you; Facebook will send a download link to your email address in a few hours when your archive is prepared.

Several mobile apps (such as the free SmartSync for iOS or AddressBook for An­droid) will scrape your Face­book friends' info and add it to your smartphone contacts.

Even so, Facebook offers far more information on you and your friends than you’ll ever really need, and it’s bet­ter to be selective. Think of it as an opportunity to do some spring cleaning. 

Facebook offers this option to download all of your info.

Facebook friends list clogging up your phone, do a quick manual review and copy only pertinent info before shut­ting down your account.

Another trick allows you to copy one of Facebook’s most used and least appreciated features: the birthday re­minder. Navigate to your Facebook Events page and click the magnifying glass icon. Select Birthdays, click the magnifying glass again, and choose Export Birthdays.