Social networks now occupy a large place in the daily life of Internet users. We use them to keep in touch with our loved ones (friends and family), to follow the news, to find out about events close to home; but also to find a job. It is therefore better to pay attention to our activity on the web through social networks. It's not uncommon for a prospective recruiter to go to a Facebook profile to get a feel for the candidate, making a good impression is very important, but your Facebook business might not be for everyone.
Cleaning up one's past, an obligation?
It is not mandatory to delete old content, whether on Facebook or another is the international treasure . It is even normal to want to keep memories of your activity a few years ago. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't be vigilant. Indeed, if you have embarrassing posts, it is risky to keep them, because anyone could come across them from your profile. Your personal life could suffer as well as your professional life. It is therefore advisable to do an effective cleaning to protect yourself from intrusions.
If some of you consider yourself to be immune, because any disturbing post is several years old, know that even after 10 years, a post can have negative fallout. Indeed, it is quite common to see this kind of thing happen, because we don't joke around as easily as before on social networks, the slightest ambiguous term can quickly become destructive for your reputation. Public figures are the first concerned since the newspapers do not hesitate to bring out old publications to create controversy.
It is therefore strongly advised to take a step back from your old Facebook publications, this will allow you to clean up your life from before and the current one. It will also be more pleasant and simple to browse your profile if the time gap is not too big.
Clear his publications, simple or complicated?
If you want to start cleaning your profile, you have different solutions depending on your needs. You can simply select posts to delete from your profile; you will have access to shares, photos, statuses, etc. But this task will be very long if you want to do a big deletion, and you may not see some posts during your sorting. The most practical thing is to access your options and open the personal history, you will have access to more options including that of research for example where you can delete everything without risk. You can also access the deletion of your personal history grouping comments and “likes”, or identifications, or your publications. So it's possible to do a large delete from your options, but it will all take a lot of time. Arm yourself with courage before such an operation, but know that you can do it from your computer, a tablet or a smartphone which is quite practical.
Use a tool to go faster
It is quite common not to have a lot of data to erase on your Facebook profile, but that does not mean that the task will be quick, quite the contrary. If you have been using this social network for a few years, the accumulation can become significant. In this case, the use of a cleaning tool can be very useful. The chrome extension called Social Book Post Manager allows you to process the activity of your Facebook profile to offer effective and fast deletion options. Once the analysis of your activity is done, you will be able to perform deletions by keyword and it will save you a lot of time for an effective result.
You can choose the free Facebook Post Manager application which is set up very quickly. From this tool, you can scan your posts pretty quickly by choosing years or even months. Once the analysis is complete, you will have access to your “likes”, your comments, the publications on your wall and those of your friends, the photos, the shares… You can select the ones you want to delete or opt to total deletion. The app will take care of doing it automatically, so you won't have to manually delete every time-consuming post.
Thanks to this type of tool, you will no longer have to worry about ambiguous or compromising publications that can be found at the worst time by an ill-intentioned person.
You should therefore not underestimate the importance of social networks and your profile, which represents the image that you send back to your loved ones, but also to your professional environment.
And after?
To avoid radical cleaning after a few years, be careful what you post on social media. Facebook is not an isolated case, every word can have both positive and negative repercussions and deleting content is not always a timely solution. What will seem funny and innocent to you will not necessarily be so for a future department head who will come across a photo deemed to be in bad taste. Each user must therefore ensure that they set their privacy options correctly, sort the contacts they add, and monitor their own activity on Facebook. Acting before the mistake is made is an effective way to avoid problems.
If, however, you make a mistake, go to the options to delete your content efficiently and quickly as you go without having to go through a tool when you drag the compromising posts.
Cleaning your Facebook profile is therefore a necessity just like for other social networks. There are quick and efficient sorting tools to help you with this boring, yet much-needed task. Indeed, the importance of social networks today does not allow inappropriate photos or questionable jokes to be left in plain sight. A project manager will very often go to Facebook to see a candidate's profile and the slightest element that he finds negative could make you lose your chances of recruitment even if this element dates back ten years. What you quickly forget will stay on Facebook until you clean it up, and it's well known that the internet never forgets anything.
