We\u2019ve been living with social media for a long time now \u2014 Facebook opened up to the public in 2006 \u2014 and that means a lengthy trail of posts stretching back through the years. While this does let you take a nostalgic trip into the past with just a few clicks, it can also bring up some embarrassing and awkward memories.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Maybe your Twitter takes from 10 years ago haven\u2019t aged well, or there\u2019s an ex-partner you\u2019d rather not remember, or you\u2019re heading for a job interview and don\u2019t want your would-be employers to judge who you are now from your decades-old social media posts. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Whatever the reason, you can find and delete ancient social media posts without too much difficulty using the web or mobile apps. (They say that anything on the internet is forever, of course, but you can do your best to at least somewhat mute your mistakes. Who knows? Maybe your potential new boss never heard of the Wayback Machine<\/a>.) We\u2019ve included instructions for Facebook, X, and Instagram, as these are the places where you\u2019re most likely to have posted content you\u2019ve long since forgotten about.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Facebook is closing in on 20 years of being available to anyone with an email address, so let\u2019s start there. If you were around when Facebook first arrived, you\u2019ll remember personal status updates were much more common than they are now \u2014 people even used to write on each other\u2019s profiles, MySpace-style.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nFacebook<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n