> As a mid-30s guy, I use Facebook primarily to share pictures and updates of my son and things we do together with my friends and family.
Make sure you have the originals of those pics backed up somewhere else. When I tried to use the "takeout" (not sure what's the proper fb name) to download all my FB content and get pics from a decade ago when I wasn't as diligent in backing, I was surprised to find out that fb gives you 800x600 versions of your photos, with all EXIF metadata wiped out, even though they still have the original size.
It was a big "oh, you want your stuff so you can leave fb? here's a big fuck you". They actually spent resources to make your experience worse.
I'm pushing my kids photos to their own Google Photos album. Every once in a while I'll pull down the entire thing so I have a copy. They don't act like they own my photos.
Are you sure they have the original size from 10 years ago? I think they may have been saving space/bandwidth back then by only keeping resized versions.
They do, if I open the photo on the fb website and download it, I get the original size. If I download through their takeout service, I get around 800x600 (exact dimensions vary slightly) with no EXIF data.
They actually go the extra mile just to make your life shittier. Such a great company!
Make sure you have the originals of those pics backed up somewhere else. When I tried to use the "takeout" (not sure what's the proper fb name) to download all my FB content and get pics from a decade ago when I wasn't as diligent in backing, I was surprised to find out that fb gives you 800x600 versions of your photos, with all EXIF metadata wiped out, even though they still have the original size.
It was a big "oh, you want your stuff so you can leave fb? here's a big fuck you". They actually spent resources to make your experience worse.