You and I want to hide all our Facebook posts I don't blame you
How do you set all your Facebook posts, photos and videos to private or have a
privacy of “only me” WITHOUT deleting all our posts or our Facebook account
Or maybe you DO want to bulk delete your Facebook posts
I know exactly the position you're in because I’m in that position now
I don't know why I’m holding on to this stuff and I don't know
why I’ve been putting it off for so long I do know that people's tweets and Facebook
posts have been held against them There are high profile cases where
people have lost their jobs for things that they've said online,
things that they’ve posted on Facebook like 10, 15 years ago and it's being held against them now
I don't stand by anything I’ve written, least of all on Facebook!
I’m a comedy writer and I’ve been trying stuff out online for about 15, 20 years
Facebook do not want any of that to be held against me 15 years after I put it out there
I am going to bulk remove all my Facebook posts I’m going to set them all to private or as
Facebook calls it “only me” and I’m going to be doing this in real time step by step so you
can see the process every step along the way You can jump ahead in this video right now
to start deleting but I’m going to first backup and download everything that Facebook has on me
All my Facebook posts, photos and videos: I want to store them so at least I have a copy of them
And I’m hoping that if I then delete everything I’ve already
done what I need to do to... to keep my stuff So first you need to click on your face - your
avatar on the top right hand corner of your Facebook home page and then we're
going to go down to “settings and privacy” And then we're going to click on “Settings”
Over on the left hand side there's this column here of all the different options we're going to
click on “your Facebook information” and that brings up this page and you can see from some
of the options here down here for instance you can deactivate and delete your account
I don't know why I... I think I need to still be in Facebook just to check what's
being said about me and to check where I’m being tagged so all of this staying
with Facebook is from a place of mistrust! But this is the menu that we need and we're
going to go into “Download your information” and that brings up this “downloads” page
You can pause the video here just to see about the different options
Basically you've got two choices: you can either download an html file which is like a web page
It's going to look like a web page when you open it once you've downloaded it
The other option is json... a json file and that is a file that you could take to
another social network and upload it there, so it's to enable portability of your data
I don't want to repeat the mistakes of my Facebook page!
And you've got some options with media quality, we're going to keep that “high”
and you can also select a date range if you just wanted to download particular years
I’m going to download everything so I’ve got everything in one place
Scrolling down to the next section you can select the information that you want to download
so this is the list here: things that you've saved your messages, posts, all your pages and profiles
I’m just basically going to see how I have timesucked... how I’ve wasted my life
on Facebook, so I’m looking forward to this Plus all the other information that Facebook
or “Meta” as they like to call themselves now as they distance themselves from their
appalling behaviour over the last decade. Now I don't know why, but “request a download”
hasn't appeared here so the button's here but I can't click on it
It says you need to select a date range... right so we'll choose
“All time” so now the button has appeared: big blue button, “request a download”
I’ve no idea how long this is going to take so let's do a time jump!
Whoa! It's 17 minutes later and I’ve got this email from Facebook in 17 minutes!
The file you've requested containing your Facebook information is now ready for you to download
Yes so it took 17 minutes and I’m dressed differently because
I’m doing this the next day because I did not think it was going to be that quick
I am now going to click on this “available files” link and that
opens up the download your information page In the top right hand corner we have a tab here:
available files instead of the “request a download” tab, and there is one download
here ready for me to download There's a little option here
for delete so you can get rid of it when you don't need it but I’m going to hit download,
and I’m going to download this file and while that's downloading we will get to deleting and
setting all our Facebook posts to private - I promise you - but let me show you what's in this
download of all your information from Facebook And it comes as a zip file so I will
open with the unzip thingy Let's see what's in this folder!
There are a really impressive 46 folders Look at all these things, all these
different types of Facebook data. The one I want to go to first is “posts”
Let's dip into a couple of these so there's an album and a media folder
There are so many folders but they're all presented in html which means that if I
double click on them, like this one, let's go to album 6, it presents your posts as a familiar
web page which is kind of cool So these are some of my many photos
but outside of those folders we have “your posts” this is my very first post October the 29th 2007
I’m eating stuff in borough market I mean it's just it's quite
literally my life flying before my eyes I’m glad that I’ve got them all on my drive here
You know really great stuff like me with the famous UK presenter, Gok Wan.
You can see me there nestled behind the camera confidently producing this shoot
Here's me with broadcasting legend Danny Baker on my very first job in television as a runner
I was such a professional, look this is... this is me at work here knocking
tea over every keyboard I ever worked with But now I want to set all of my posts to private
and I’ll show you how to delete them as well First we click on your avatar in the top
right hand corner and we'll go to settings and privacy...
And then we're going to go down to activity log and that opens up the activity log page
In the activity log on the left hand side you'll see right at the top, “your posts”
and I’m going to click on this pull down menu and it brings up your posts as a... as a page
So this here is literally everything I’ve ever posted
When you scroll down to the bottom it stops and it reloads
more posts and photos so let's speed this up This is me scrolling down to the very bottom of
everything I’ve ever done on Facebook so this process takes me about five minutes
It might take you longer but oh my goodness there's so much junk here!
The next thing we can do is to scroll back up again right to the top,
and when you get to the top if you click on one of these tick boxes here or check boxes let's
just take the first one to show you what happens All of these buttons come to life so we have
deselect... that obviously deselects the tick There's this archive button here
I cannot see the point of the archive button It just puts it into an archive folder
The next button along is the big bad trash can, I...
I’m so tempted to do this
Let's see what happens. I’ve selected a few of my posts.
When you hit trash it brings up this dialogue: move to trash
Items moved to trash will be deleted after 30 days Wouldn't it be great just to delete everything
I won't do that just yet, I’m gonna use this button here “change audience” so I’m going to hit
the all box and if I tick this box it selects all of my posts
And you can see here this number has gone up to 1762.
That's how many posts I’ve put on Facebook in my life.
I’d love to know how many you've made: leave a comment down below and hit a thumbs up
if you've reached this point because I’d love to know if anyone is going through with this!
I am so excited that you and I get to do this. We can now set all of our Facebook posts, photos,
videos everything to private or only me by clicking on this button here: change audience
And it brings up this menu You can select the audience
You can select public and set everything to public I don't want to do that
Friends, which I’ve already done This is the one I want: I’m going to
select only me for all of my posts And all I need to do now is
to click on this confirm button That's making sure that you're sure about this
All of the selected posts will have their audience changed, so obviously if you have
lots of posts with different types of audiences and custom audiences, it's just going to wipe
them all and set them to “only me” I’m going to hit the change button
Do it, do it... oh what! Something went wrong!
Facebook... naughty... Let's try again then
Change audience, only me, confirm Something went wrong
Facebook you utter rotter Right this is one of the
many reasons we've got to leave Facebook What I’m trying now is... I’ll go into date
I’m going to filter out say 2019... save changes... there those are all my posts from 2019
Sorry, you can hear some randy pigeons up above Then I’m going to select all,
so that's 108 posts, and I’m going to hit change audience, only me, confirm change
Yes it's worked! Okay so that's one year, one of the 14 years
I’m gonna now have to go through every single year and set every year to “only me”
I’m sorry... if I can find a quicker way I’ll put it in the description below but
Facebook is not being nice Who'd have thought - I know... I know
I’ve been spending far too long on this I know but it's nearly over Casper!
It's nearly over I mean should I just delete... I should
just delete my Facebook account shouldn't I? Or at least delete all the posts, but right here
is another video that YouTube thinks that you will love. Good luck with your Facebook deleting.