How to bulk-delete your old Facebook posts

It’s now easier to get rid of all those embarrassing posts

 

If you’ve been on Facebook for any amount of time, it’s likely that you’ve accumulated a lot of posts, some of which you may wish you hadn’t, well, posted. You may want to cover your past entries from a possible employer or a university admissions board — otherwise you may want to reinforce your personal security by eliminating identifiable information.

Early in June, Facebook announced a replacement bulk-delete feature for the mobile app that it calls Manage Activity, which makes it easier to urge obviate all of your past posts. The idea is that you simply will now have the power to pick some or all of your posts and delete all of them directly . However, if you actually want to wash up your Facebook backlog, this version of the feature leaves something to be desired.

Here’s how it currently works:

•  Go to Activity Log
• Then Manage Activity
• And Your Posts
• Now manage Your Posts
  

 

 The Filter button allows you to filter which posts you’d wish to select (assuming you don’t want to only delete them all). After you decide on your filter, you'll click on individual filtered posts. After that, click on Archive or Trash at rock bottom of the screen. According to Facebook, you’ll be ready to retrieve any trashed entries for 30 days, after which they’ll be permanently deleted.
 In addition, at the highest of the listing, there's a checkbox; if you tap that, it'll select all of the posts that are currently in your list so that you'll delete all of them directly .
 However, here’s the catch: Facebook will only delete those posts that are within the visible list — and it'll only populate the list if you still scroll down. If you've got several years’ worth of Facebook posts that you simply want to delete, that’s tons of scrolling — and waiting. (On my phone, the app paused to repopulate after every 10 posts.)
 At any rate, once you’ve selected all of the posts you would like to delete, tap the “Trash” button (or the “Archive” button if you prefer)
 If you’ve trashed any posts by mistake or have changed your mind, select “Trash” on the highest of the page to ascertain all of the posts you’ve trashed. You can then click on the three dots to the proper of every entry to look at the entry, restore it, archive it, or permanently delete it.

It’s very possible that this is only the first iteration of the new Manage Activity feature, and that a future update will provide a more practical solution. According to Facebook, Manage Activity will only be available on the mobile app for now, but it'll eventually appear on the desktop version.