I’m watching in awe as this tool (a Chrome-based browser add-on) downloads all tagged photos of me ever posted to Facebook so I can archive them on my own external hard drives. Been putting this off for years because a huge chunk of my life documentation from 2007-2013ish only existed in photos taken by other people and it felt daunting to get them all in one place that I could own and access, but NO MORE. If you’re also in the process of trying to get your digital shit in order, give it a whirl.
(n.b. the plugin will download all tagged images without date information attached, due to how Facebook handles image exports. Tom Cleveland, who built it, offers a one-time paid service that connects the correct metadata to your photos for seven bucks, which will then work for all future image downloads as well. I’m a fan of paying creators for tools I find useful, so I’m opting into that, but it also feels like a good thing to be aware of on the way in so you can make an informed choice.)
Anyway here I am at the dog Bellwood park eleven years ago.
