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How to find your oldest social media posts and delete them


Avoid a future social networking nightmare by deleting past posts.

We’ve been living with social media for a long time now — Facebook opened up to the public in 2006 — and that means a lengthy trail of posts stretching back through the years. Maybe your Twitter takes from 10 years ago haven’t aged well, or there’s an ex-partner you’d rather not remember, or you’re heading for a job interview and don’t want your would-be employers to judge who you are now from your decades-old social media posts. If you want to go down memory lane (and assuming you haven’t already deactivated your account), you can get to your oldest tweets in a few ways, but using the platform’s built-in search engine is the most straightforward.

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