Today Facebook had a few announcements, which they streamed live on their site. One of the key additions to Facebook is one that gives users control of all their information. Basically any user will be able to click on a “Download Your Information” link, and Facebook will zip up all their information and send it to them in an attachment via an email.

The download your information feature will be a great way to back up all your Facebook photos as well as history of all your wall posts, links, events, friends, messages, etc. Instead of relying on Facebook to store all your photographs, some of which you may not have a copy of on your computer, you can now have full control over them, being sure you will never be at the mercy of Facebook.com if you want to look at the photos chronicling your life. The great thing is that it will only take about a minute or two to download your entire Facebook history.