Last week, I posted on Facebook and then a few days
later, realized that I really shouldn’t have posted the information. I couldn’t
find a way to delete the posting, and now I’m in trouble. Did I miss something
obvious? Can you, in fact, delete a Facebook posting?
We are not fans of Facebook (old
guys, as a rule, don’t “get” social media) but we can see your concern! It was
a big darned deal with Ken’s niece announced she was pregnant on Facebook,
before telling her parents! Yikes. That was ugly!
What we learned there is that there
is such a thing as “too much sharing,” and yes, you can (and often should)
delete Facebook posts. The answer is really quite simple, and it’s consistent
across all Facebook platforms. If you locate an post you’ve made, click the
down-arrow in the upper-right corner of the message. From the drop-down menu
that appears, select the Delete option. Once you do that, your post will be
deleted from your Timeline and from any of your friends’ feeds. If your friends
shared your post, it will no longer be available online. There’s nothing you
can if people copied/pasted your post, however. Good luck with that!
We’re wondering if it’s time for
Ms. Online Manners to have a word about what’s appropriate to be posted on
Facebook (or other public media). There’s no guide for what’s acceptable or
even reasonable, so we’ll stay out of it. Think twice, however, about posting
life-altering events (marriages, pregnancies, and so on) without telling your
immediate family IRL (in real life) first. They’ll appreciate the notice.
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