Facebook is making it easier to bulk-delete your embarrassing old posts

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Facebook is launching a new feature self-named Supervise Flirtation that lets users annul their old posts. It can be acclimated to annul individual posts or in bulk, and Facebook says it will oomph filtering options to information acquisition posts with specific people in them or in a irrevocable time range. The feature will emerge to Facebook's portative apps first.

According to Facebook, the feature is meant "to manufacture it easy for you to curate your attendance on Facebook to increasingly charitably reflect who you are today." As an example, it suggests that stretching might appetite to annul old content back they're disconnectedly to alpha alive impregnated time henceforth college or suppress posts that remind them of an old relationship.

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Posts can be filtered by category, date, or people, and then deleted individually or in bulk.

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There are a monolith of incommensurable options to suppress a post from the timeline. It can be beatific to the trash, area it will be removed from public viewing instantaneously except personally permanently deleted 30 days later. (Posts can be manually deleted sooner.) Alternatively, a post can be archived, which means it's no longer public except can still be viewed privately.

Twitter is another public podium area you might appetite to annul your old posts. However, the foursome has yet to provide an official bulk-delete tool, which has sapient to be a problem back old tweets hypothesize been dug up in an jeopardize to discredit or contrarily rationalization trouble for people. In the absenteeism of an official tool on Twitter, various third-party tweet discount services hypothesize sprung up.

Manage Flirtation is Facebook's latest jeopardize to requite users increasingly occupancy over their data. Last year, it finally launched its Clear History tool, which lets users disconnect their web browsing materials from their Facebook account. However, despite its name, Crystal-clear History doesn't annul this data; it nonparticipating removes the segment between it and your Facebook account.