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Background

Long time ago I have, unfortunately, created an embarrassing Facebook group and later decided to remove it. According to Facebook's instructions, that can be done by removing all members and then removing myself. The group disappeared. Now, after about 4 years, it turns out that four members were deactivating their accounts at the time of the deletion and the group has magically appeared again. Unfortunately, my only association with that group is two (very, very) embarrassing posts and I'm trying to delete them.

Question

Is there any way to delete own post from an open group of which I'm not a member anymore? (Using Facebook UI, Graph API, a contact form, anything, any method)

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I've never tried, which is why this is a comment, not an answer. But logically my first step would be to re-join the group (change your settings to not notify anybody about what you do first!), and see if you can just delete the messages? If you're still using the same Facebook account, then chances are that the posts are still identifed as "yours" at database level. – MaryC.fromNZ Dec 11 '12 at 12:16
@MaryC.fromNZ, the group currently has 4 members, I can only see one (it says there are 4 but I can see their names). The one I see is an Admin, sadly it looks like a fake account (hasn't liked or posted anything in years, no cover photo, no activity at all) – Adnan Dec 11 '12 at 13:35
and I cannot join the group since the new Facebook groups require admin approval (even for open groups) – Adnan Dec 11 '12 at 13:37
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That 'Admin' account is probably an old deactivated account, hence the no cover photo, etc. Your best bet is to contact Facebook. – ekaj Dec 14 '12 at 5:27
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Are you sure your posts are visible to others? Try the "view your timeline as..." to get to the postings? Otherwise, you could report the group, claiming it's harassing you (admin is inactive, won't re-add you to allow you to delete posts). There's an option in the sequence of screens to "Report to facebook" and the final step allows you to "Receive an email from facebook after the report is handled." (or something like that) – Fuhrmanator Dec 16 '12 at 20:00
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So what you need to do is go to the post and click on edit post and then it will bring up a small page and it will say do you want to delete this post then click delete and you're done.

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Please type whole words. The length limit on posts is 30,000 characters not 140. Using text speak makes your posts hard to understand. – ChrisF♦ Apr 3 at 23:58
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Go to https://www.facebook.com/USERNAME/allactivity or click on the activity log on your profile page, and from there you should be able to view all your group posts (you can filter by category of activity), and then you can delete the comment.

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Can you provide documentation or proof of this activity? Answers should be conclusive and not possibles. – Dez Dec 18 '12 at 6:02
I have already tried that, but when I try to delete it (by clicking the circular icon) I get a menu that says "nothing". – Adnan Dec 18 '12 at 10:32

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