How to Delete All Your Old Facebook Posts
Facebook has a brand new tool for deleting old posts, but it’s not very good. Not only is it not available on the Facebook desktop site – due to the rollout – but even if it was, there are much better tools you can use right now to delete your old Facebook posts without deleting Facebook itself.
A few words about this before we get started: I disagree with Facebook’s position on allowing access to content from important people, which would otherwise cause the layman to turn off the service, but I still use Facebook to keep in touch with my friends and locals. communities. I do not condemn those who want to leave the service, but I am not going to postpone helping those who remain.
How Facebook Action Management works
If you can access this feature through the iOS or Android or Facebook Lite version of Facebook, where it’s supposedly available right now for iOS or Android, you’ll find it in your Activity Log.
Bring up your profile, tap the three dots next to the blue Add Story box, and tap your activity log. From there click on “Manage Activity” and click on the “Your Posts” pop-up option. You will now be taken to this screen where you can click on the individual messages you want to archive or delete:
When you archive content on Facebook, only you will know that it will be there in the future – that is, you and Facebook. Your friends won’t see it. The potential for debris should be obvious, but there is one small catch; whatever you throw away is thrown into the digital trash bin, which starts a 30-day countdown for your posts. Once this time has expired, the message will disappear forever. If you change your mind, just head to the trash can and undo the deletion of your post while you can.
Since there is no “select all” option in this tool, be prepared for a lot of taps if you plan to clear your account. I bet you’ll give up before you clear your messages, so you don’t even have to worry now. There are better solutions.
Facebook website gives you the best tool to delete old posts
If you’re using the desktop version of Facebook, I’m a fan of its Manage Messages tool, which you’ll find to the right of the Messages section of your profile:
Click on it and you will get a window similar to your Facebook app that lets you filter posts by date, select a large group of them (or all of them), and delete them. The latter option will only appear after you click the Next button if you’ve filtered out messages that were only created by you. If you accidentally pull someone else’s post, the option will be unavailable.
You won’t be able to archive old messages using this technique, so delete or nothing. However, if you don’t want everyone else to see it, do you think you care so much about what you posted 10 years ago?
If you really want to delete years and years of posts
You may need a little more firepower than any of these tools provide. Given how much you’ve probably posted on Facebook, and how much you might want to delete, manually clicking or tapping on posts is a great way to spend a day or a year.
Try a Chrome extension like Social Book Post Manager instead. It will take a while for its automatic magic to work and delete your old posts, but it’s much better than trying to manually delete a ton of old content.
Otherwise, you can always opt for the nuclear option : delete your account and sign up for the service again. If so, make sure you download all of your details first, and make a list of all the friends or groups you want to reconnect with when you return so you don’t miss anyone.