There are a number of email backup apps out there at the moment; some online, some locally stored on your computer, and saving the backups to said computer, One thing you might not hear a lot about are backups for your online social-networking. In the face of that I thought I’d tell you about a couple of apps that will back up some of your social networking activities:

The first of these is a service called Backup My Tweets. It’s a social media backup service that works with Twitter, and it’s absolutely free.  As Twitter doesn’t store more than 3200 tweets at a time, it’s a good idea to use this service.  The backups via this service will allow you to save your social media files as an XML file, a JSON file, or an HTML file.

Another backup service for social media sites is called SocialSafe. SocialSafe backs up your Facebook account. It does cost, but only $2.99, including add-ons and updates. It runs in Adobe Air, which you’ll need to install on your machine before installing and running this app. Having done so, you can backup everything in your Facebook account; photos, photos you were tagged in, posts and profile information, the lot. SocialSafe is platform-independent; so it won’t matter whether you run Windows, Linux, or Mac OS. Once you’ve backed up, you can access all the files from your local machine via a text editor (Notepad, Wordpad…), word processor, (Microsoft Word, Open Office…) and via photo-editing software if you so desire.

SocialSafe say that they intend to cover other social-networking services in addition to Facebook; and may indeed already do so by the time this article is published.