How to bulk delete your old Facebook posts?

If you’ve been on Facebook for any length of time, you’ve probably accumulated a lot of posts, some of which you wish had never been shared. You may want to hide your past entries from a potential employer or a college admissions board – or you may just want to increase your personal security by eliminating identifiable information.

Earlier in June, Facebook announced a new bulk delete feature for the mobile app. Invokes Manage Activityand this makes it easy to get rid of all your past posts. The idea is that you now have the ability to select some or all of your posts and delete them all at once. However, if you really want to clean up your Facebook backlog, this version of the feature leaves something to be desired.

Here’s how it currently works:

• On your profile page, tap the three dots next to “Add to Story.”
• Select “Event Log”
• You will now be on the Activity Log page. At the top, tap the button labeled “Manage Activity”
• You will see a “Manage Activity” popup; Tap “Your Posts”
• You will now be on the “Manage Your Posts” page. At the top of the page are three buttons: Filter, Archive, and Trash.

• The filter button lets you filter the posts you want to select (assuming you don’t want to delete them all). You can choose by Category (like text updates, photos and videos, or posts from other apps), Date or People. After choosing your filter, you can click on the individual filtered posts. After that, click on Archive or Trash at the bottom of the screen. According to Facebook, you will be able to get back the trashed entries for 30 days after which they will be permanently deleted.
• Additionally, there is a checkbox at the top of the list; Tapping it will select all the posts in your list so you can delete them all at once.
• However, the point here is this: Facebook only deletes posts from the visible list and populates the list only if you keep scrolling down. For example, when I have a large number of Facebook posts with photos in them, when I filtered the “Photos & Videos” list, I was only able to select posts up to May 2016 because that’s all I scrolled through. . If you have several years of Facebook posts that you want to delete, this share scroll – and wait. (On my phone, the app paused to refill after every 10 posts.)
• In any case, once you’ve selected all the posts you want to delete, tap the “Trash” button (or the “Archive” button if you prefer).
• If you accidentally trashed any post or changed your mind, select “Trash” at the top of the page to see all the posts you’ve trashed. You can then click the three dots to the right of each entry to view, restore, archive, or permanently delete the entry.

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