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Ok FB. You can keep the data. Give me FB options instead. Thanks.
This is a third-party application that allows you to export your data. It was not created by Facebook.
Facebook allows you to do this. There is no need to give a third party application access all of your information.

Click "Account Settings", and then "Download Your Information". Voila. You'll get an email within a few minutes.

https://www.facebook.com/help/?topic=download

To be fair, it appears that this project predates Facebook's launch of the download feature by a few months.

I work for FB, but not on this feature.

When you download your information with the FB feature you only get your wall posts and other basic info.

I guess that with this app you can download your group's wall, something I have always desired since the creation of the new groups.

EDIT: I tried to download my group's wall with this app and it's not working.

This app has been online since late 2009. It offers formats that the FB download did/does not (dot file, XML, CSV). It received a lot of attention last year (2010) http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/01/facebook-app-... possibly influencing FB to add the download service. Not sure if they would admit it, but its very possible the idea seeped-in somehow.

I am the developer.

PHP runs out of memory when I try to export all of my mutual friends to dot or nodebox formats
How many friends?
~1500
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