Computer Tricks and Secrets

Short answer: Facebook lets you download a complete copy of your own account, photos, posts, messages, friends list and more, through its official "Download Your Information" tool. It is the right way to back up your memories or move them elsewhere. (You can only download your own data, not anyone else's, that is by design and good for privacy.) Here is how. How to download your Facebook data Go to Settings & privacy > Settings . Find Your Facebook information (or "Your information and permissions"). Choose Download your information . Select what to include (photos, posts, messages, etc.), a date range, format (HTML to browse, or JSON for data), and media quality. Request the file. Facebook prepares it and notifies you when it is ready to download. What you can include Data Useful for Photos and videos Backing up memories Posts and comments Keeping your history Messages Conversation archive Friends and profile info Records / moving ...

Short answer: you cannot export your Facebook friends' phone numbers anymore, and honestly that is a good thing. Facebook removed the feature and the API that allowed it, because mass-harvesting other people's contact details is a serious privacy problem. What you can do is download your own data. Here is the honest picture and the legitimate alternatives. Why this used to be possible, and why it stopped Years ago, some tools and a Facebook contacts export could pull friends' phone numbers into a file. After several high-profile data-scraping scandals, Facebook shut those doors: friends' phone numbers are no longer exportable, and the developer APIs that enabled bulk contact access were locked down. Any old tutorial promising to "export all your friends' numbers" is both outdated and describing something that is now blocked. Why that is actually good for you Think about it from the other side: you would not want a casual acquaintance exporting your...