Has a terrible habit of reminding you of everything you've ever posted. Most likely, in the dark corners of your Chronicle there are many records that you no longer remember. It's time to remove them once and for all.

How to Delete Old Posts from Facebook Timeline

Alexey Zenkov

Checking the Chronicle

First of all, make sure you know how your Timeline is viewed by regular users (those who are not your Facebook friends). To do this, go to your Timeline, click on the lock icon, in the "Who can see my materials?" select "View As" and you will see the following:

Take a good look at everything, and if you don't like something, click on the date under your name, then on the globe icon, and change the item "Available to everyone" to "Friends", "Only me" or "User settings". In addition, you can completely delete the entry by selecting the appropriate item after clicking on the arrow in the upper right corner.

Hide old public posts

If you want to hide many public posts at once, then you will be surprised that Facebook has a special tool for this.

Click on the privacy settings padlock in the upper right corner of the page, select "See other settings" and click "Restrict access to previous posts." Read the message that appears and click "Apply these restrictions to past posts" if you want only friends to see all your old posts.

Change Chronicle settings

Next, let's make sure the Chronicle settings match your preferences. Click again on the privacy settings padlock in the upper right corner, select "See other settings" and click on the "Timeline and Tags" tab in the left panel.

Check that the first, fourth, fifth and seventh points are set to "Friends" or whatever you choose:

More thorough cleaning of Facebook

If these tips are not enough for you, you can use one of the extensions for the Chrome browser, such as Facebook Post Manager. However, such programs can be overly aggressive, so be careful when using them.

Ready! You have cleared your Timeline of old forgotten posts. Now you can live in peace and not worry that someone will stumble upon a compromising image or status that you posted in 2009.

To get started, it's worth looking at what your feed looks like and deciding which posts to hide or delete. To do this, click on the three dots next to the "View activity log" button and select "View as ...". In this mode, you can see how your page is displayed to friends and everyone else.

Each post can be separately deleted and hidden right in the feed, but in the settings there is an item for simultaneously hiding all previously published entries from prying eyes. Click on the padlock icon in the top bar and select See other settings. This will take you to the privacy settings, where you can apply visibility restrictions in the feed. All your old entries will now be visible only to friends.

Next, you need to select the "Chronicle and Tags" item in the menu on the left. In this section, you can configure the access and visibility of your timeline, it is especially worth paying attention to the first, fourth, fifth and seventh points - switch to the "Friends" or "Only Me" mode.

It is most convenient to delete and hide posts from the feed in the activity log (the “View activity log” button), where there are filters to view only your posts, likes or posts in which you are tagged. If you don't want to set up each post separately, you can use a Chrome extension like Facebook Post Manager.

After installing the extension, go to the activity log, select the required post filter and, without scrolling the page, start Post Manager. In the extension settings, you can select the year, month and keywords to hide, unhide (Hide / Unhide) or delete posts (Delete Posts) and likes (Unlike) in your feed. After executing the command, all that remains is to confirm the decision by clicking the corresponding button (Confirm) that appears in the top panel.

The difficulty depends on whether you want to delete only one post - it's easy - or clear the entire wall. In the second case, you will need third-party programs, since Facebook does not provide for deleting everything at once. You can also hide the post - in this case, it will not be visible when entering the timeline, but it will not be permanently deleted.

Deleting one post

If you need to delete only one post, then this is done elementarily. Find the post you want to delete on your timeline. Click the arrow. The menu will open. Select "Delete" in it.

Deleting a Facebook post

In the confirmation window, select "Delete publication" - the publication will be deleted.

This will also remove all reposts of your post from the pages of people who have shared your post on their wall. That is, deleting a post in your timeline is also a way to remove a repost of your post from someone else's page.

How to clear your timeline on facebook

It is no longer so easy to clear the entire chronicle. It cannot be done with just one button. There are special third-party programs with which you can do this. For example, Facbook Post Manager. If a lot of records have accumulated over several years, and manually deleting each post is not an option, then you should use the program.

How to hide a post on your timeline

You can simply hide a post from your timeline. At the same time, any person, including yourself, will not see it when viewing the chronicle. To hide a post, click the arrow and select Hide from Timeline. In general, everything is done in the same way as deleting, just select the “hide” menu item.

Difference between Remote and Hidden Publishing

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Is it possible to get a hidden post back?

You can't get a hidden post back - you can't make it show up on your timeline again when you visit it. But as already said, hidden publication is not completely lost. You can find a direct link to it in the activity log.

To do this, open the magazine

Rewind in it either to the publication date of the hidden post, or to the date of its hiding (this is closer). All actions are ordered by time, and the dates are highlighted when hovering over.

Click a date and your hidden post will open in a window.

In the most popular at the moment social network Facebook has about 936 million daily active users. Their number per month reaches 1.44 billion people. Given this, this social network can no doubt be called the most popular in the world.

Certain mechanisms are provided to protect user pages from the actions of intruders. If you are accessing your account from a certain place for the first time, then to use the social network you will need to enter a code that will be sent as a message to your phone number. Thanks to this, it will not be so easy for attackers to gain access to your page. Also, if the code from the message is not entered, then when you enter the social network, Facebook will notify you that someone tried to access your page and recommend changing your password.

Of course, problems can arise with such protection if the number to which the page is linked is lost. And restoring access will require some effort from you.

This social network also has an activity log, about which there is a considerable number of frequently asked questions. The most common: how to clear the activity log on Facebook and what is it? This is exactly what we will talk about below.

Answers

The activity log is a web page of the Facebook social network that contains information about all the actions that have been taken from your page. Thanks to this, you can follow all the activities to be sure that your account is safe. For example, if you suddenly notice an action in this log that you did not perform, then you should immediately change the password for the page.

A fairly large number of users are wondering how to clear the activity log. So, nothing can be deleted from the action log, except for the search history. And this is for security purposes. After all, if it becomes possible to delete actions from the log, then when performing some illegal actions through your page, an attacker can simply delete them, and you will never know that someone used your account.

However, you do have the option to delete your search history, which is quite a useful feature. In order to clear your search history, you need to follow some steps. Read about it below.

Deleting search history

First of all, you need to go to the activity log itself on the Facebook social network. It doesn't matter which Facebook page you're on, the top bar is everywhere. After the inscription "Find friends" on the main panel of Facebook are buttons. Among them there is a button in the form of an arrow pointing down, by clicking on it, a list with several tabs will be available to you. It has an item "Action Log". He is what we need.

After clicking on this item, you will be taken to a page that displays your actions, which are sorted by the time and date they were added to the list. Under "Filters" there are quite a few tabs, you need to click on the "More" tab. Next, you can see the “Search” item among several buttons. Next, click on it, and you will be taken to the page where your search queries will be displayed. In order to clear the search history, you must click on the inscription "Clear search history" opposite the inscription "Search". Next, Facebook will ask for your final confirmation, and that, in fact, is all.

Thus, with this guide at hand, you can always clear your search history on the Facebook social network. And if you are also an active VK user, we recommend that you read our article

Delete messages on Facebook is not as easy as in e-mail, since the former stores the entire history of your messages.

To delete messages, you need to open one, go to options and start selecting the messages you want to get rid of. If there are a lot of such accumulated, then it will take a lot of time to clean them. Alternatively, you can remove the message from the list, but only for a while. It will be archived and will appear when this person sends you a new message.

This task is intended to facilitate the application for Chrome -. With it, you can delete all messages with one click of the mouse.

Delete messages on Facebook (slow option)
You can open your messages and send them one by one to the "Archive". However, the messages you delete will not disappear forever - they will appear when you receive a new message from this addressee.

To delete individual messages, you first need to open each of them. Click on the button " Actions' and select ' Delete messages ».

You will see all the correspondence with this friend, opposite each message there will be a window. Tick ​​the ones you want to delete, or just click " delete everything».

Tiring, isn't it?

Delete all messages on Facebook at once
To take control of all your Facebook messages, go to the extension in your browser and click " Add to Chrome" to start the installation.

Once the installation is complete, the extension will be automatically activated. Now, to delete all your messages on Facebook with one click and not open each individually, go to the Messages page. You will see two additional buttons: one is in the top toolbar, the other is highlighted in red. Click on them to permanently delete all your messages and conversations.

Conclusion
With this extension, you don't have to spend a lot of time deleting messages by clicking on each one individually. Just install it on your Chrome browser and perform this operation with one click!