Social Book Post Manager (Facebook)

With the recent reports of massive invasions of privacy by Facebook, many people are deleting or at least seriously considering deleting their Facebook accounts. - Of course, when we signed up for Facebook and agreed to their Terms of Service (that nobody reads) we authorized Facebook to use our personal information. - The fact is that our personal information is being used for purposes other than what we intended, regardless of what we may have agreed to in the Terms of Service.

Not everyone wants to just dump Facebook. Facebook can be a useful and even fun way of sharing with a widely-dispersed circle of friends, and businesses can use Facebook to advertise and promote their products and events. The problem is that over the years large amounts of personal information build up in our Facebook accounts, and Facebook doesn’t make it easy to delete large numbers of previous posts.

However, don’t worry - There’s an app for that: Social Book Post Manager.

If you’re serious about cleaning up your Facebook life, the Chrome extension Social Book Post Manager is a great tool to have at your disposal.

Though you’ll have to give Social Book Post Manager permission to "read and change your data" on Facebook - which might not thrill those looking to lessen third-party access to their Facebook information - it’s the only way you’ll be able to let the extension work its magic.

Social Book Post Manager does exactly as its name implies: It roots through your activity feed to find content matching particular keywords you provide, and it then allows you to delete or privatize these posts.

Though Social Book Post Manager takes a little time to work if you’ve been super-active on Facebook each year - or if you’re filtering to specifically remove or hide content about, say, that ex you still hate - it’s a lot faster than trying to clean up your activity feed manually, even if you have to run the extension multiple times to make sure you got everything.

Because Social Book Post Manager is a Chrome extension you will need to access your Facebook account using the Google Chrome browser in order for Social Book Post Manager to do its thing. After running the extension and cleaning up your Facebook account you can always remove the app from your Facebook account.