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How to archive and delete all your Facebook messages

by kolistivra on 2/11/13, 9:06 PM with 12 comments

• by forgingahead on 2/12/13, 12:01 AM

  One thing to note is that deletion of a message on your end does NOT remove it from the person you sent it too. I have a second test account I attempted this with and the received messages were still accessible by the recipient, even if they were gone from the senders.

• by Osmium on 2/11/13, 10:31 PM

  Any idea how to do this with your photos/wall posts too? I'd love e.g. a IFTTT action or a script that once a month would archive and delete anything on my Facebook that's older than, say, a year.

• by chucknthem on 2/12/13, 2:07 AM

  Gotta say, it really bugs me to know that people would willingly download a script they don't understand and run it against their private data.

  Sure the javascript is open source, but how many people will actually read and understand it before running it?

  Not saying that this specific script or post has any nefarious intent, but it's obvious how easy it would be to trick a bunch of otherwise intelligent people to give away access to their facebook account by posting something that claims to protect privacy.

• by gulbrandr on 2/12/13, 2:00 PM

  You can use http://jsbeautifier.org/ to read the script.

• by nroman on 2/12/13, 2:39 AM

  Alternate title: How to self-XSS your Facebook account.