Managing your Facebook Timeline Quickly

So you now have Timeline and your starting to realize what a mammoth task it is to tidy up that profile or yours. Deleting and removing those drunken posts/pictures from your uni days.

I've had timeline since it was announced and have just put off sorting my timeline out as I just knew until every one could see it I wasn't that bothered about my old posts.

Though come this week facebook will start rolling it out to everyone, giving you a full week to start sorting your timeline before your friends can start stalking your past, and we all know which friends will be spending hours looking at your past, stalkers!

If you haven't got timeline yet, visit https://www.facebook.com/about/timeline and scroll to the bottom and activate timeline.

You will see your timeline when your visit your own profile, here is mine as an example:



You can then start scrolling down and seeing all your history, and no doubt will find stuff you don't want to see anymore.

So for example I don't want this post to be shown on my timeline any more:



You can then select: hide, delete or remove



Now if you only have one or two posts, or only joined facebook this week then you wont have too much to worry about. Though most likely you will have alot of stuff you need to hide or delete, for example all posts from the odd friend you knew at university who you don't want to me aasociated with any more, hense the unfriend the day you graduated.

So here is what I suggest (and the major reason of this post).

How to quickly manage your timeline.

Just below your Cover Photo you will see a button called "activity log"



Then you can see an overview of every year in the past



Select a year you want to look at. Make sure you just click on the year and not a month.

Now its worth making sure you just see what your interested in removing only. For this example I'm using posts by others on my timeline (wall)



Now you can see a list of all posts that have been posted on my timeline (wall) by others. Next to each post you will see a small circle. Clicking on this circle will prompt you will all the options on this post, such as hide, delete etc.



Unfortunately you can hide or delete every post from an individual but this is by far the quickest way to tidy up your timeline. Remember this is an example for posts by others on your timeline so make sure you check photos and your statuses to make sure those drunken pictures you don't want to be seen aren't seen!

Hope that helps