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Ooh, cool. I was just idly wondering today whether I could easily delete all my posts from high school (full of angst about calculus and bus rides).

If Facebook actually wants people to be using their service in twenty years, they should really build timeline cleansing in.

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It would probably be a good idea to make only actions made after accepting a friendship were visible to the new friend. So old HS friends could still see old posts, but new work friends can't.

>> "I was just idly wondering today whether I could easily delete all my posts from high school (full of angst about calculus and bus rides)."

Although I agree with your feature request why does it matter to you that that stuff is there? I enjoy going back through my timeline (maybe once a year or so) and seeing old things. There may be a few things that make me cringe but there's nothing so embarrassing that it would have any effect on me currently should anyone else see it.

Probably just me but that sounds crazy (very possible you use it normally while I don't). I've deleted then returned to FB many times. Even when I'm not deleting my account, I always clean out my past posts, sometimes a few days later (after posting them) while other times I'll wait a few weeks. If I add a new profile pic, I usually delete the old one. Also, I talk to people via PM.

I doubt that's something Facebook would ever do as it would remove the point behind "Timeline", which goes all the way back to when the user was born.

If it stops people leaving Facebook like the parent suggests it sounds like something they should build. If people are leaving your service because of one of your major product features you have a problem.

I agree. Unfortunately, the fact that they include the moment you were born in your timeline makes me feel that they don't want us to easily curate our profile.

I might be a pessimist though, I hope they add the feature.

Keep those. It would be funny to look back on in 20 years, if it lasts that long.

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