Facebook announced that, as of this Monday (19/04), it has given the green light to users who wish to transfer their posts to third-party platforms, such as Google Docs, Blogger or WordPress. The new feature is part of the company's executives' plan to reduce accusations of monopoly and antitrust policy.
According to the official statement posted Steve Satterfield, Facebook's director of privacy and policy, on the platform itself, the idea is to “make people's lives easier”.
“To give people more control and choice over their data, today we’re introducing two new types of data portability, Facebook posts and notes. People can now seamlessly transfer their notes and posts to Google Docs, Blogger, and WordPress.com. These updates expand the reach of the tool, which already allows people to transfer their photos and videos to Backblaze, Dropbox, Google Photos, and Koofr,” he said.
The Facebook executive also said he took due care when releasing the feature to transfer posts, so as not to suffer from new accusations about data leaks of users. To this end, Satterfield revealed that he has spoken with legislators to make it clear what data may be transferred and who will be responsible for its security after the process.
“We plan to continue expanding our data types and partners in the future. However, the ecosystem we are building to support data portability will not come to fruition without regulation that clarifies what data should be portable and who is responsible for protecting it once it has been transferred.”
How to do it?
The process of transferring posts from Facebook to the other platforms mentioned is actually quite straightforward. The steps are as follows: First, users should visit their settings and click on Your Facebook Information. Then, they should choose to Transfer Your Information.
Once this is done, the user must enter the password and then click on 'choose destination', indicating the platform to which they wish to transfer their Facebook posts and notes. The last step will be to actually 'confirm the transfer', which will be completed as soon as the information about the chosen platform is also provided. The only drawback to the entire process is that there is no way to share just some publications: it's all or nothing. There is no middle ground.
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