Guide to archiving social media accounts

If you’re thinking of leaving a social media platform or want to regularly make an archive copy of your social media account, there are two ways you can do this:

• Using the download functions of the social media platforms themselves: This is the simplest way to save all the content from your account, and you don’t need to install any extra software. Depending on the social media platform, shared posts and comments from others may not be exported and will be missing from the archive. Export functions usually result in a ZIP file with HTML files. This can only be done by the account owner.
• Using