Erasing social media sins from the past

Not every post and not every photo from the personal social media career of the past few years has to be a highlight. But downright embarrassing public posts should be found and deleted.

Many people share their lives with others over the internet. They post photos of their food, travel, children, and hobbies without really thinking about it. In addition, there are often comments on current life situations, political circumstances or other situations. If you look back at these posts years later, you will often find one or two embarrassing pictures or statements that no longer fit the current self. Here it is better to clean out your own social media presence and delete inappropriate posts. TECHBOOK shows the best way to do this.

Facebook

off to activity log, where almost every user action is recorded chronologically and which allows individual changes: Likes can be removed, posts can be deleted, chronicle entries can be revised. According to the experts, anyone who wants to clean up their appearance on the largest social media network and delete inappropriate posts needs time, possibly a lot of time if you use Facebook every day.

There are hardly any tools that could be used sensibly for cleaning up Facebook. An exception, however, is the expansion Social Book Post Manager for the Chrome browser. It offers the advantage of editing many posts in the activity log in one go.

Also read: Facebook makes deleting old posts easier

Instagram

Photos, photos, photos – that’s what Instagram is all about. But if you look more closely, you will definitely find pictures in the stories that you regret or at least no longer like to see. A recommendation to remove them is Cleaner for Instagram. The app is for Android available.

Google & YouTube

The search engine is of course not a social network. But also and especially there a lot of information about oneself may appear – desired as well as undesired, old as well as new. In order to always be in the picture of what the Google search finds about you, it is worth doing the permanent search Google Alerts set up.

The service automatically notifies you of new hits by e-mail. You should not only set up an alert for your own name, but also for usernames or nicknames that you use on various services and networks. Anyone who fears that they have overshot the mark with YouTube comments can get theirs View history and delete posts in the social media network in a targeted manner.

Twitter

Embarrassing chirping from the past can also be banished with Twitter tools. So offers about the Advanced Search the ability to search older posts specifically for keywords. According to the experts, tools from external providers help to clean up faster and more conveniently. For example, offers a good tweet overview Tweet deleter. The list that the service spits out can be filtered according to various criteria, and tweets can be deleted directly.

The web service Tweetdelete on the other hand, can automatically ban tweets that are older than specified by the user – once or regularly automatically. In this way, the social media network can be kept clean without having to manually delete posts again and again. the tools Tokimeki Unfollow on the other hand, it helps with “unfollowing”. It displays the most recent tweets from accounts one by one, each time offering the option to unfollow the profile.

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