Facebook has decided to make the timeline feature mandatory across all its users. Problem is, at once in our lives, we’ve made a pretty bad decision of posting status updates that can make or break our application from a job or can destroy our current relationship. Facebook has no built-in feature that will allow us to delete our previous posts from a certain year.
There was once an Android application called Exfoliate, that they said, kept Mark up all night figuring how to combat the application that automatically deletes things for you. But Facebook has made moves and now the application is not available.
Here, we present you a “brute-force” alternative that will help you “automate” the cleaning up process of your timeline. This may not be a full automation of the process but will definitely do you a favor.
TOOLS NEEDED:
- A web browser that supports iMacros (e.g. Firefox, Chrome)
- iMacros add-on for your chosen browser
- A little patience
- Common Sense
In this tutorial, we will use the Mozilla Firefox browser.
PROCEDURE:
Step 1 Launch Mozilla Firefox.
Step 2 Download and install iMacros for FireFox.
Just click on the Add to Firefox link and follow on screen instruction to complete installation. After installation, allow it to restart your browser.
Step 3 When Firefox has restarted, go to your Facebook timeline page and start managing your timeline.
To do this thoroughly, I suggest we do it by month instead of by year.
Step 4 On the rightmost part of your timeline page, you will see the timeline. Click on the year you want to start, for this tutorial, I chose the year 2009. Clicking on the year 2009 will expand it with months.
Step 5 Right-click on the month you want to start with and select Open in New Tab.
*Note: This will delete every post without giving you the ability to choose which post it deletes or skips.
On our next tab, we will see something like this.
It’s the small icon to the left of the address bar. Click on it to activate the tool.
Once activated you will see this.
Step 7 Right click on the #Currenr.iim and select Edit Macro.
VERSION BUILD=7401110 RECORDER=FX
REFRESH
TAG POS=1 TYPE=I ATTR=CLASS:mrsimgsp_78bswxsx_580af6
TAG POS=1 TYPE=SPAN ATTR=TXT:DeletePost...
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:BUTTON ATTR=NAME:ok&&VALUE:DeletePost
REFRESH
TAG POS=1 TYPE=I ATTR=CLASS:mrs
TAG POS=1 TYPE=SPAN ATTR=TXT:Delete
TAG POS=1 TYPE=INPUT:BUTTON ATTR=NAME:ok&&VALUE:Delete
After doing so, click on save.
Click on the one you saved and click Play. You can also look at he Repeat Macro portion and select the number of times you want the process to execute.
Enjoy.
