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I love Facebook, but I don't want all my contacts to be able to sift through all my old posts.
So I'd like to delete all my posts and comments from Facebook after a defined time, like, say one year.
To do this by hand is tedious - is there any way to automatically delete all my Facebook posts older than a certain timespan from Facebook?
There's a new app available on Android that does this called Exfoliate. It exhaustively goes through all your friend's walls and deletes posts, comments, and likes.
NOTE: none of these actually delete the content on other people's pages, they just make your page less cluttered and delete YOUR content. so, it will delete your wall posts, but it will not delete the commentary of yours on someone else's page, only clear the activity line stating that you commented on person's page. read the descriptions.
this does it: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/106969 it's just not automated clockwork, ie you have to each day/week/whatnot delete the stuff older than the selected post. i assume that is easily modifiable, especially if you run this script under a cronjob under linux.
this appears to clear/delete (as applicable) everything: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/106713
UPDATE: This Self-Proclaimed Privacy Expert claims to have written an iMacros script that will do what you are looking for. I don't know if the free version of iMacros will do this though; you may need the paid version.
Funny, this is exactly what I have been thinking for the past few months. I actually want to delete ALL of my posts. I am pretty sure you can accomplish this with imacros free. O ff the top of my head, have imacros scan the page for the little x boxes (use firebug to grab the id and/or classes for the x's, and then have imacros click down and up, then repeat.
