For various reasons you have decided to leave Facebook. However, you are struggling with the idea of losing all the history and the information that you have placed into Facebook after all of these years. Luckily, you can backup your Facebook data to your local computer.
Even if you do not want to delete your account, you should consider backing up your Facebook data. Despite the precautions Facebook takes to ensure your data is safe, keeping a backup of your data is a great idea. Finding out someday you do not have access to this information could be very annoying. In fact, it is completely possible that one day Facebook could disable this feature. Thus, occasionally backing up your Facebook data makes a lot of sense.
Your information is available to download from your Account Settings page.