Facebook has today launched a new feature called Manage Activity that will allow users to delete their old posts. This can be used to delete individual posts or in bulk, and Facebook says it will offer filtering options to help find posts with specific people in them or in a certain time range. Unfortunately, you can only delete using mobile apps for staters.
The feature is meant “to make it easy for you to curate your presence on Facebook to more accurately reflect who you are today.” As an example, it suggests that someone might want to delete old content when they’re about to start working full time after college or remove posts that remind them of an old relationship.
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Below you can see an illustration of how you will be able to bulk-delete your old posts.
Among the different ways to remove a post from your Facebook timeline include; sending the trash, where it will be removed from public viewing immediately but only permanently deleted 30 days later. (Posts can be manually deleted sooner.) Another way, a post can be archived, which means it’s no longer public but can still be viewed privately.
The new Manage Activity is Facebook’s latest attempt to give users more control over their data. Last year, it finally launched its Clear History tool, which lets users disconnect their web browsing data from their Facebook account. Unfortunately, Clear History doesn’t delete this data; it only removes the link between it and your Facebook account.
