Matthew Kelly Old Dominion University What is it Addon for Mozilla Firefox Allows you to grab a stand alone archive of your Facebook account at that point in time Archive Facebook httpbi ID: 739262
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Archive Facebook
Matthew KellyOld Dominion UniversitySlide2
What is it?
Add-on for Mozilla FirefoxAllows you to grab a stand-alone archive of your Facebook account at that point in time
Archive Facebook http://bit.ly/archivefbSlide3
Current Methods
“Doesn’t Facebook already allow you to do this?”FB allows you to download your information but the look-and-feel islost, removing the familiarity of traversing one’s FB content
ArchiveFacebook uses the browser’s rendering engine = WYSIWYG
Archive Facebook http://bit.ly/archivefbSlide4
Why is this important?
FB’s facilities to backup your profile do not preserve
look-and-feel
FB’s backup is a simple
file
structure, so
removes ease of viewing to which user is accustomed
Archive integrityWhat gets downloaded with FB’s method is of their choosing
Archive Facebook http://bit.ly/archivefbSlide5
Why is this important?
FB can delete account at their discretionAccount may be compromised and data lost forever
Archive Facebook http://bit.ly/archivefbSlide6
Why is this important?
Information is frozen-in-time, so will remain even if comments are deleted, posts are modified, etc.Provides potential for expansion into archiving other Facebook pagesFriends’ Facebook pagesGroup Fan Pages
Archive Facebook http://bit.ly/archivefbSlide7
How Does it Work
Minimal UI provides navigation ease – only one menu item selection to get started
Archive Facebook http://bit.ly/archivefb
Pick and choose what you want archived
based on a list of supported media type
Can choose defaults and archive all
Very few clicks produce significant resultsSlide8
How do I access my archive?
New menu item addedRestoring is as simpleas clicking the datedarchive’s name
Archived files are stored locally and can
be backed up to alternative
medium
,
viewed by other applications and
treated
as normal files on the system
Archive Facebook http://bit.ly/archivefbSlide9
What it Doesn’t Do (Yet)
Chain together various archiving sessions – each session is independent from all others.Allow you to archive anything beyond your own informationThis would violate FB’s TOS, has been implemented but the functionality is hidden
Archive Facebook http://bit.ly/archivefb
Maintain robustness through FB’s
redesignsSlide10
Complications in Developing the Add-On
No prior experience in Add-On Dev DomainFB occasionally changed their URI scheme and data storage method, which breaks ArchiveFBArchiving can take awhile (inherent to the problem)
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Further Suggested Improvements
Appeal code to social media sites other than FB (e.g. G+, MySpace)Allow for automatic archiving based on a user-defined periodGive an option to store archives in a user-defined location
Archive Facebook http://bit.ly/archivefbSlide12
Where can I get it?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/archivefacebook/or -http://bit.ly/archivefb
Archive Facebook http://bit.ly/archivefb