Comments on: Back Up Your Social Media Profiles

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By: Amit

Amit — Wed, 26 May 2010 03:27:27 +0000

There is another application for taking Facebook backups called Spara which is free of cost. It is in beta at the moment but looks very promising. It uses the official Facebook API to extract data so it is entirely within the TOS of Facebook.

http://mediawarrior.com/spara

By: Aggie Villanueva

Aggie Villanueva — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:45:38 +0000

Thank you so much. This is the first I’ve known that I actually CAN back them up. Do these programs back up your actual friends/followers? How do you rescue them all if FB or Twitter mistakenly cancels your account?

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Mediation Channel hacked: a cautionary tale about security, safety online — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:50:04 +0000

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Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:01:57 +0000

[...] your website. You can also make backups of your Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn profiles. A recent article on Web Workly Weekly listed a couple of “social networking backup” services that do just that. If you do a lot on any of these services this article is worth the [...]

By: Kirsten Grant

Kirsten Grant — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:50:16 +0000

Now this is a very helpful article. Never thought about backing up until now. I can see the virtue in this line of thinking and actually taking your advice.

I’m saving this article and will look at implementing your suggestions! I share job search tips and secrets to finding a job via Twitter and Facebook and certainly wouldn’t want this information lost.

Great job!

Kirsten Grant
Twitter ID: Kgrantcareers

By: What If Your Basket Breaks? | Dave Delaney - Community Enthusiast, Social Media Strategist and Humorist

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:48:01 +0000

[...] WebWorkerDaily posted some great tips today on how to back up your contacts on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn – you should go do that now. You never know when that basket is going to break. [...]

By: Jenn

Jenn — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:50:09 +0000

Great article. A lot of great tips. It’s an eye opener considering what happened today.

By: Patricia Skinner

Patricia Skinner — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:00:36 +0000

Really timely article and one we should all take heed of: i’m off to back up my LinkedIn profile. But PLEASE install the Tweet meme plugin so we can retweet your posts. :)

By: Shevonne

Shevonne — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:53:24 +0000

I’m backing up now after what happened today. Great article!

By: andy

andy — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:10:35 +0000

Excellent suggestions. One assumes that the next time you log-on to a social network, everything is still there, but there are no guarantees in a virus-laden, ID-hacking internet world.

Another tip for LinkedIn: Since people can spend many hours writing and updating their profile and collecting recommendations, it’s a good idea (and easy) to back up your LinkedIn Profile. Just click on the VIEW MY PROFILE button and then click on the PDF icon (just to the right of your photo, next to the printer icon). It creates a PDF page which includes all your written info and your recommendations. Save a copy on your computer. If you ever had to re-create your profile, it would save you many hours. You can also email the PDF to people not on LinkedIn as a mini-resume and print it out and proofread your writing from paper instead of on-screen.

You could also cut and paste the info to create a new profile in another service, too.

This would be in addition to saving all your contacts, as described above.

From Andrew Brandt, author of “The Job Seeker’s Guide to Online Networking and Using LinkedIn.” http://www.linkedin.com/in/andybrandt1