Got Facebook?

by GRI Instructor Jerry Kidd, GRI, CRS, CRB Teaches GRI Course 107 - Real Property, Tax and Exchanging View future classes taught by Jerry Kidd

If so, do you have a back up of your profile, friends and photos?

Just for fun, do a quick Google search on “lost facebook account”. You’ll see many items from people who have had issues with losing their Facebook accounts, so it’s not if it will happen, it’s merely a matter of when.

Just like with your computer. Only with Facebook, backing it up has been something of a mystery. Until now.



Head on over to SocialSafe.com, fork over $2.99 and get set up with their nifty Facebook backup software. It runs on the Adobe Air platform which is compatible with Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 Mac OSX Tiger and Leopard so you can probably run it on your computer.

Once you pay your money you are emailed a License Key and given download and install instructions. The first time you run this on your profile it could take a while to complete depending on the number of photos that you have and how prolific you have been with status updates! So be patient.

It would be a royal pain for me to have to recreate all of my friends and profile information, so for a little less than 3 bucks I have bought some peace of mind.

And you might want to do that too!