Social Folders — personal computer backup storage and synchronization of online stored data :: News

Social media, cloud services and various web applications expand their influence on our life. It leads to the fact that more data is stored online. Documents are stored on Google docs, personal photos on Facebook or Instagram, work files in Box.net etc. It is all great but it would be nice to have all up-to-date personal data closer, offline in your computer, in case the Internet isn’t working. Social Folders is a special program that resolves this issue and helps organizing data stored in different online services.

Social Folders is free software for Windows and Mac operating systems, and serves for backup storage and synchronization of data kept in personal accounts on different online services. Another words this program is kind of Dropbox, but for online services. At this point the software backs and organizes files from Facebook, Flickr, Photobucket, Google Docs, Box, YouTube, Instagram и Picasa. Evernote and Twitter are going to be added very soon.

In order to start working with the service one should register on Social Folders web-site first, and then download light client software. In the end of installation process the program will ask account details, and then in system tray the application logo will appear. Besides the new folder will appear in your computer - my Social Folder, where all the files from web services will be kept. Next stage will be connection of online accounts just on the Social Folders web-page.

After all needed services are connected, the data will be synchronized and all the online files will be sorted out by catalogs in proper folders. From this point all the changes made with the files stored online will be duplicated on the personal computer, and vice versa. Social Folders is a great tool for backup storage and file management between personal computer and online services.