Facebook Live is Dead

As of February 19, 2025, Facebook began deleting live videos after 30 days from the broadcast date. This means that after 30 days, your live videos will be deleted from Facebook’s servers. Previously, you could keep your Facebook lives as long as you wanted to.

For those who don’t want to lose all of their past Facebook lives, Facebook provides the ability to download before they are deleted. Users will be notified before their (previous) videos are deleted and have 90 days to download or transfer them. 

Well…that sucks.

I have been doing Facebook lives since about the time they made it available, around 2016. I probably have hundreds of Facebook lives. If I didn’t download them, I would have lost them all.

It is no longer possible to go back to the vast archive of your favorite church’s live stream on Facebook. Hopefully they have it on YouTube as well.

Facebook live was probably the thing I did the most in terms of media content. I really enjoyed coming on Facebook live. The interaction was fun. But I can’t invest my time in something that is going to be gone after 30 days. As George Bush Sr. said, “No, not gonna do it. Wouldn’t be prudent…”

So for those of you who were using Facebook live as your main platform, I suggest you find a different platform. YouTube is a good option for live streaming. YouTube allows live streaming if you have 50 subscribers or more.

For now I am focused on this blog, and making some YouTube videos (not live).

Rest In Peace Facebook Live.