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 to a Google Doc, Blogger, or WordPress.
Personally, I don’t need to keep all the stupid things I’ve said on Facebook for 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 that you download your digital life to a folder on your PC where you keep all your other important and regularly backed up data, and never look at it again.)
To get started, open your Facebook and visit your settings pageand then navigate to it Your Facebook Information section. There you want to click on “View” next to the new one “Send a copy of your information about” line. Note the wording: you are not moving or remove old messages, by simply copying them elsewhere. To get rid of them completely, you either have to go through them manually and delete them (ha!), Or delete your entire Facebook account
Select Messages (or Notes) on the next screen. You cannot choose which Facebook messages or notes to transfer; anything you’ve created on your Facebook profile (but not posts you’ve posted to groups or other pages) will be copied. Also note that this will only copy your posts, not posts from friends posted to your Facebook page – a big difference.
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Choose your destination (Google Docs or WordPress / Jetpack) and click The nextYou will, as always, need to authenticate to the service and grant Facebook several permissions:
And once you do, your request will be queued. Yes, it’s not like a direct transfer, but my transfer request is currently being processed and I assume I’ll receive an email and / or Facebook notification when it’s good to go.
Fingers crossed that I don’t suddenly have 10,000 new documents in my Google Drive to deal with. While you wait, you can also go back and repeat the process for your Facebook notes. If you are ambitious, you can even start copying your photos also to another service.