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"remove it. It's that simple." FTFA: "And if you have been even partially active on Facebook for the past few years, there is simply way too much of it to poss

"remove it. It's that simple." FTFA: "And if you have been even partially active on Facebook for the past few years, there is simply way too much of it to possibly delete manually. There is no button to simply “delete all” (trust me, I’ve looked)."

kmfrk 15y ago
Tell me about it. I had to spend the better part of a day anonymizing my Quora profile, because their concept of private profiles seems like something the founders brought over from their stint at Facebook. Even so, it seems like there is still some history in my EDITS tab that I have no idea how to hide or purge. Back when I decided to do over my Twitter profile, I used the API to automate the deletion of all my tweets. Any other way would be impossible.
estel 15y ago
Yes, it's still as hard as before to remove content. But I don't see how "improving content discoverability" is suddenly a bad thing on Facebook? Yes, Timeline makes it easier to find old stuff, but on HN aren't we always looking for users to be able to access and discover content as easily as possible?
natesm 15y ago
This would actually be pretty easy to do (for someone on Hacker News). You could do it with the real API, but it could also probably be done with a few lines of Javascript pasted into the URL bar on your profile. Any takers?
- jaredsohn 15y ago
  There's a stackoverflow post on this subject from a year ago: http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/12937/how-to-delete-all-facebook-posts-comments-older-than-1-year http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/12937/how-to-dele... From the comments there, it sounds like the real API might limit you to deleting messages created by your own app. Somebody also posted a Javascript solution where you double-click the 'delete' button to delete all older posts, but I'm not sure if it will work since the version information says "obsolete" in it.

kmfrk 15y ago

Tell me about it. I had to spend the better part of a day anonymizing my Quora profile, because their concept of private profiles seems like something the founders brought over from their stint at Facebook. Even so, it seems like there is still some history in my EDITS tab that I have no idea how to hide or purge. Back when I decided to do over my Twitter profile, I used the API to automate the deletion of all my tweets. Any other way would be impossible.

estel 15y ago

Yes, it's still as hard as before to remove content. But I don't see how "improving content discoverability" is suddenly a bad thing on Facebook? Yes, Timeline makes it easier to find old stuff, but on HN aren't we always looking for users to be able to access and discover content as easily as possible?

natesm 15y ago

This would actually be pretty easy to do (for someone on Hacker News). You could do it with the real API, but it could also probably be done with a few lines of Javascript pasted into the URL bar on your profile. Any takers?

jaredsohn 15y ago
There's a stackoverflow post on this subject from a year ago: http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/12937/how-to-delete-all-facebook-posts-comments-older-than-1-year http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/12937/how-to-dele... From the comments there, it sounds like the real API might limit you to deleting messages created by your own app. Somebody also posted a Javascript solution where you double-click the 'delete' button to delete all older posts, but I'm not sure if it will work since the version information says "obsolete" in it.