On Saturday 24 March 2018, I downloaded my Facebook and Google archives. The Facebook archive was 600mb, roughly 400,000 Word documents. The Google archive was 5.5gb, roughly 3m Word documents.
These archives are broken down by categories, I’ll start with Facebook.
- All your sent messages
- All your received messages
- All of your phone contacts (yes not just your Facebook friends)
- All of your text messages
- All of your phone call records (not Facebook calls)
- All your sent files
- All your received files
- Every time you sign into Facebook, and from where
- And all the stickers you have ever sent (it’s just a joke at this stage)
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- All of your search history (regardless if it has been cleared from your browser)
- All of your Google calendar events, and if you attended them (using your location to confirm your attendance)
- Your location every time you turn on your phone, converting it into a timeline to show everywhere you have been for the last twelve months.
- All of the images and files you have ever downloaded
- Your Google fit information (steps, workouts, etc)
- All of your stored photos, and metadata (where the picture was taken and when)
- Every advertisement you’ve ever viewed or clicked on
- Every app you’ve ever launched or used
- Every app you’ve ever installed or searched for
- All your YouTube history since the day you started using it
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