In contrast to Lamebook‘s provocation of Facebook by showing some unglamorous user posts on the famous social networking site, Ninuku Archivists attempt to do the opposite: augment its functions to your Facebook profile. This archiving company offers to collect all your Facebook data and turn it into something that you can compile and show your children and grandchildren when you are already too old and gray to use a computer.
Basically, Ninuku collects all your Facebook stuff monthly (wall posts, notes, photos, comments, likes and all that jazz). But it does not just dump your whole thing on a printer-friendly format. It will organize your stuff in a way that makes it look like a spin off of a digital scrapbook. Chronological is not often easy when you are on Facebook, but that’s what Ninuku serves to do for its customers. The chronological scrapbook will then be turned into the friendly PDF format that you can print later on.
There was no particular feedback yet on how customizable the archiving settings really are. But for only $24 for an annual archiving (12 profile chapters for you), that’s quite a decent deal to try. However, this thing does not really tickle everybody’s fancies. For one, only few will hold on to paper memories. Most gadget geeks will opt to go pen and paperless for the most part. This kind of does the opposite for the sake of sentimentality.
Some people consider it a narcissistic task. But isn’t the allure of being the star of the show what made Facebook the Internet bigwig that it is now? The main difference is that it’s no longer interactive once it is translated into paper for future reference. It’s a bit better than a diary in the sense that you will also get to keep, among many other things, other people’s reactions and posts to your Wall. People may find these encouraging posts (assuming they are replete with encouraging wall posts) worth going back to from time to time.
The delete function for a cleaner Facebook page is a refreshing benefit. Once you have imported everything to the PDF, you can manually direct that some posts be deleted once transferred to your chronological Facebook scrapbook. Automation would have made things short and sweet for the user, but the developers of Ninuku claim that they want to make sure you are the one who deletes your content for your privacy and utmost safeguarding of your favorite Facebook posts. I personally think they could do better on this one and remove that manual task of erasing the content link by link.
Ninuku comes from a Philippine dialect which translates to “It’s who I am.” The company’s tag line is to share, save and delete. Share for a time, save the data elsewhere and delete it all after. They claim that it increases your security measures for Facebook by not really revealing too much to your network (and to hackers) at any given time.
Free trial for Ninuku can be found here.
