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When I was going through and manually removing my old posts, I couldn't delete any older than a number of years, and just got an error. I'd prefer the other bug
by moonka 8y ago
When I was going through and manually removing my old posts, I couldn't delete any older than a number of years, and just got an error. I'd prefer the other bug.
- anaphor 8y agoIn case you decide to try it again, I wrote a little Selenium script in Python that works pretty well (although it took 3 days to complete for about 12 years of FB posts) https://github.com/weskerfoot/DeleteFB/blob/master/deletefb.py https://github.com/weskerfoot/DeleteFB/blob/master/deletefb....
- moonka 8y agoI will check it out. Looks awesome. Thanks for sharing!
- julien_c 8y agoI don't understand why people delete their past Facebook posts. considering it's highly unlikely they are actually deleted in the backend (and not just flagged)
- anaphor 8y agoMostly to make myself feel less tied to it. I have no illusion that it does anything more than remove a reference to them.
- smelendez 8y agoPeople don't want someone they know to see retrospectively embarrassing old posts. It's true the posts could be archived by Facebook or another entity. They could conceivably be republished widely by a bug or someone malicious. But at least this way they won't resurface in the normal course of business.
- dannyw 8y agoNot true in a post GDPR world.
- gtirloni 8y agoI don't mean to hijack this thread but please see my question about deleting FB account before GDPR happened: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19527715 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19527715