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DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook wall posts

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Re: DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook wall posts

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Post by wolco »

Canadauni wrote: post #80
nostalgk wrote: post #5

Does anyone know if there is an equivalent to delete Facebook friends or unlike pages/leave groups? I really want to clean out my Facebook since I've had it for a very long time and much of it doesn't appeal to me anymore, but I don't necessarily want to lose the tiny social ecosystem I've created with my family. However, I would like to remove the hundreds of friends and pages that I don't talk to/don't represent me…

It takes a while but what I ended up doing was deleting friends on their birthdays. It takes at least a year but mostly weeds people out who don't fit in your circle.

That's a little cold. Remember the circle turns.

Re: DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook wall posts

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Post by VirenM »

terminally_ill wrote: post #169
haser_au wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This may work against you, especially if Bloomsbury Publishing issues an infringement notice to Facebook. In that scenario, Facebook need to place your account on 'legal hold', retaining the account and history indefinitely while the copyright case is resolved. It's possible this would be cold-storage and all past edits.

Exactly the reason why I stopped using sources like Unsplash for free graphics when I was as a young designer. Imagine the Enis' surprise when their shiny new website came under attack by a zealous photographer for copyright infringement. This woman is now a chief editor for a major publisher. This is an awesome idea though, I think I'm going to go with Hunter S. Thompson though. ]:\

Could you give more context to this story, perhaps a link?

Re: DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook wall posts

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Post by cyphar »

saddlerustle wrote: post #109
AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #6

I don't trust the "delete" button to scrub it from FB's database. I'd be slightly more confident ( slightly ) that editing the post might cause the core data in the db to be updated, however. In which case, I think the more effective script would be one that goes through all of your FB posts and scrambles them, or replaces the text with gibberish.

Lots of people in this thread are claiming that it doesn't based on gut feeling, but consider: - Facebook publicly claims it does [1] - Mark Zuckerberg testified in-front of congress and stated they do [2] - Multiple government regulators have specifically checked that it does in their privacy audits. [3] They might be lying and actively conspiring to not delete it, but they'd have to have a very good reason to take…

> Mark Zuckerberg testified in-front of congress and stated they do

I just want to point out that "testified in-front of Congress" seems to have no relation to the truth of any statement. I don't recall the last time (if ever) there have been legal ramifications for lying in front of Congress.

Zuckerberg also testified that shadow profiles don't exist and that users can always remove their personal information from Facebook (they do exist, and you can't). James Clapper testified that the NSA doesn't "wittingly" surveil hundreds of millions of Americans (they do, very "wittingly").

Re: DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook wall posts

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Post by jaabe »

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #6

I don't trust the "delete" button to scrub it from FB's database. I'd be slightly more confident ( slightly ) that editing the post might cause the core data in the db to be updated, however. In which case, I think the more effective script would be one that goes through all of your FB posts and scrambles them, or replaces the text with gibberish.

If you edit comments you’ve made, people can sometimes click them to see the previous versions. So I wouldn’t be too sure about that.

Re: DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook wall posts

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Post by blhack »

new_here wrote: post #23

About a two years ago my friends and I used to scroll back into each other’s posts from the early days and ‘like’ some of the most cringeworthy posts and photos we could find. It would cause them to bubble up into everyone’s newsfeeds again. Was a fun game. This script would have saved me some manual labour back then. (Edit: we also used to endorse each other on LinkedIn for the most bizarre skills we could find. Toi…

Aww, man. This just made me scroll way back to 13 years ago, and this is exactly why I love facebook. Obviously I said some stupid things when I was 18, but I was a child. But it was really cool looking back at the much more romantic version of myself when I was a kid.

Re: DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook wall posts

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Post by chimpburger »

2Ccltvcm wrote: post #106

Some sure fire ways to get your account actually deleted, and quickly: post large amounts of hardcore porn, extreme gore, and anything that puts Jews in a negative light like Nazi symbols combined with the prior two methods. The moderation team will nuke your accounts very efficiently.

Why was my reply flagged? This has actually happened for some FB users.

My flagged reply was: "Also, anything criticizing Islam or LGBTTQQIAAP rights"

Re: DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook wall posts

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Post by helloindia »

amerkhalid wrote: post #60
nostalgk wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My experience is that I have hundreds of people to snooze, and would rather just have a fresh start and let those people trickle back in if they want to. Maybe I should just make a new account.

I did that last year, created a new account. Added back only a few real friends. But slowly started getting requests from many of the previous friends. Some thought I had unfriended them, so had to explain to them that it was a new account. Felt obligated to add back most of the people. Now my feed is useless again. Perhaps this should be yearly ritual.

Things to remember when you create a new account: 1. an alias for profile name rather than real name 2. don't put your picture in your profile

This way, you can add people you want to, and you'll not get requests from people you're hiding from.

Re: DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook wall posts

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Post by nerdponx »

ngcc_hk wrote: post #112
xs83 wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Facebook don't need to keep your past posts, their algorithms have already run the data. The real question is whether you can reset the "personas" they assign to you....

Agree. If it is deep learning do not know any way to get from weights back to data.

You can't un-train the model. Your contribution has already been made.
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