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It's worth noting that the messages exported from facebook with their tool are often truncated. It seems to be more comprehensive with your more recent contacts
by colecut 9y ago
It's worth noting that the messages exported from facebook with their tool are often truncated. It seems to be more comprehensive with your more recent contacts, so analysis will skew favorably to people you were in contact with most recently.
- occams_chainsaw 9y agoI haven't seen truncation, but it is misleading the way it breaks up conversations. Instead of getting full threads, you'll get chunks of convos in chronological order which makes it a nightmare to follow anything.
- unqueued 9y agoStaying on top of these undocumented pseudo-formats is a real challenge. That's why it's a good idea to not wait to archive stuff. When I wanted to analyze my Google Voice history of 9 years, all of the scripts to parse it didn't work anymore, so I had to write one: https://github.com/unqueued/googlevoiceparse https://github.com/unqueued/googlevoiceparse Google Takeout's HTML archives weren't exactly friendly when I wanted to drill down and find certain patterns.
- codejoust 9y agoIt looks like within the past 8 months or so that Facebook has changed to format of their data dumps to not truncate messages, as their previous data dumps were previously structured as one giant messages.htm file which would be difficult to parse and seems like it had missing data for certain cases.