Facebook now lets users transfer posts and notes to Google Docs and more
The updated data portability tool is now available to all users globally
Facebook is expanding its data portability tool to allow users to transfer their notes and posts to Google Docs, Blogger and WordPress.
The social media giant notes that these updates extend the reach of the tool that already allows users to transfer their photos and videos to Dropbox, Google Photos and more.
âWe designed this tool with privacy, security and utility in mind. Weâll ask you to re-enter your password before the transfer starts and encrypt your data as it moves between services, so you can be confident it will be transferred securely,â Facebook notes.
In June last year, Facebook expanded the availability of its data transfer tool that allows users to move their photos and videos to services such as Google Photos and Dropbox. Today, the social media behemoth has announced that the tool – which is part of the Data Transfer Project initiative – is getting more versatile when it comes to the content it can transfer. In an official blog post, the company announced that
users can now move their posts as well as notes to Google Docs, Blogger, and WordPress.com.
And to mark the new arrival of new capabilities, Facebook is renaming the feature from ‘Transfer a Copy of Your Photos and Videos’ and is
Social networks have typically followed the roach motel model of customer data: Make it easy to push data in, but hard/impossible to pull it back out. Platforms like Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter all make money by knowing what information you’ve (wittingly or unwittingly) handed over â and then selling access to that data to advertisers or others who want to reach you. As a result â though there are some meaningful distinctions to be made between the various giants â platforms have traditionally not been super interested in letting you get your information back out.
In the past few years, some of these companies have shifted their stances and even called for regulatory standards for data portability â which, if ever enacted, could serve as a moat to protect the giants from any new competitors. (Some barebones requirements are part of GDPR and CCPA.)
Facebook Data Transfer Tool Now Supports WordPress and Google Docs
Facebook has updated its data transfer too, adding support for Google Docs and WordPress.
Like many online platforms, Facebook gives users the ability to download their data. Such services can provide a useful backup, or make it easier to use the data and posts in other mediums.
Facebook has expanded its service to include Google Docs, as well as WordPress and Blogger. The company is also renaming the tool to better reflect its new abilities.
To give people more control and choice over their data, today we’re introducing two new data portability types, Facebook posts and notes. People can now directly transfer their notes and posts to Google Docs, Blogger and WordPress.com. These updates extend the reach of the tool that already enables people to transfer their photos and videos to Backblaze, Dropbox, Google Photos and Koofr. To better reflect the range of data types people can now transfer to our partners’
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