With Facebook’s new “Manage Activity” feature, users can archive old posts or throw them in the trash.
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With a new feature, Facebook users can curate their profiles and hide old posts that users may no longer be able to easily share with their online connections. The new tool called “Manage Activity” is ideal for transition periods such as entering the job market or leaving an old relationship.
“We want to make it easy for you to curate your presence on Facebook to reflect who you are today,” said Facebook in an announcement on Tuesday.
Users could previously delete posts or change the settings so that certain posts were only visible to themselves. The new feature, which emerges from the activity log in Facebook, is to rationalize the process. Users can dump or archive posts in bulk or individually in the trash. Posts that are trashed will stay there for 30 days if users change their minds. Archived material remains visible to a user, but not to his Facebook friends or the public. The new function is currently only available in the Facebook mobile app.
The feature comes when Facebook responds to years of concerns about its privacy practices. The “Manage activity” function does not control what information Facebook has about you, but what your Facebook contacts can learn about you.
Delete posts from Facebook does not always mean that the company deletes the posts from his servers. Some data can only be deleted by users permanently delete their accounts. When users open new accounts after deleting their old accounts, it doesn’t take long for the company to do so Gather new data to better target ads.
Facebook also stores other peripheral data about you, e.g. B. Websites that you visit that contain the company’s tracking technology. You can manage this so-called “off-Facebook activity”. to another function The company offers. It also collects information from users’ contact listsAdd additional phone numbers and email addresses to their cache of user data.