As a FaceBook user, you’ve likely noticed it’s very hard to go back through your wall posts and remove them! If you’ve been there any amount of time this means you have pages and pages of posts that can only be removed by clicking the X, then remove this post then possibly a step or so more for confirmation and repeat this time consuming procedure time and again for each post! They want to keep and reuse them forever so they make it very difficult to do maintenance on them!
There is finally a great script available that allows you to predefine a number of posts to leave behind going downward in increments from a total of 20, It’s called Clean my wall and as you might suspect is available at CleanMyWall.com
Go there, drag the button to your toolbar, log into your FaceBook account and goto your profile!
Click the clean my wall button and select the number of posts to leave and watch it go! This may take a vey long time to complete if you’ve been there for years.
Note this will not remove comments you’ve made on other’s posts!
You may see older posts pop up after cleanings but the utility informs you of this after each run.
The ongoing advantage is Facebook can’t regurgitate your old posts to your friends or others and search results won’t show them to friends or (others).
I run this once per week. This way if/when I decide to deactivate my account I can run it at 5 posts then remove those manually, delete photos, emails, etc. then set everything else in privacy to customized at me only and rest assured there’s nothing left for their oft changing settings to expose in my absence because I know they will otherwise never delete anything in my account if/when I tell them to deactivate it!
Joe
I have been searching the way out to clean my Facebook Wall for a couple of hours and I landed here. :-)
I also discovered th web site CleanMyWall.com but in fact I am skeptic about this kind of scripts. Are you sure that this web site is harmless? Can it grab personel info or even password of my account?
Posted by: Rutilicus | Sunday, June 12, 2011 at 08:43
There rae two ways to look at it. I don't believe it can grab your password due to the fact it never asks for it and it's not one of those facebook "apps" that demands access to goodness knows what on your profile but simply a script that goes down your wall one article at a time starting after the last number you told it to keep and clicking X and responding to those repetitive questions you otherwise have to do yourself to delete each one manually. Could they make it go rogue and change your password? I don't think so because even if it did try there's a FB safeguard that sends you a confirmation email to do that! There's even one for changing your default email address so, foiled again. Your pw isn't available in clear text and again,it isn't an app that can get the code! Do what you wish. So far I've used it and nothing has happened other than I now have only the most recent 20 posts in my profile on any given day I choose to run it. It is a script however and there is a risk it could change some settings but if it has,it's put them back every time so far. All in all. I use it but I must admit I'd prefer to be able to download and see the script I'm executing so yeah, use at your own risk. Clear as mud?:)
Posted by: Joe Taibi | Wednesday, June 15, 2011 at 11:10
Jim I'm confused. I can post an article without moderation yet not respond to its comments without it. There's something wrong with this picture. Don't post the last reply please.
Posted by: Joe Taibi | Wednesday, June 15, 2011 at 11:53