Click to viewOne feature strangely absent from Facebook has always been the ability to back up your pictures, videos, messages, and other information to your hard drive. Today, Facebook begins rolling out this feature to all users.


Once the feature rolls out to your account, all you need to do is head to Account > Account Settings > Download Your Information. From there, you can download a zip file containing all your profile information, including your photos, wall posts, messages, videos, friend lists, and other content. If you unzip the file, you can actually view a simple HTML page of your profile, with simple links to all of these things. It doesn't look like there's currently any way to re-import that information into Facebook—say, if you were taking a little break from the service—but it's handy to have nonetheless, especially if you have important information in those posts you want to come back to later.


Hit the link to read more on this new feature, as well as the other changes Facebook announced today.

Giving You More Control [The Facebook Blog]