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In other words, is there an API that would allow a Facebook user to change their posts (through a 3rd party app), which are older than a specified date, from being visible to the list "Friends" to another one such as "Only Me" or "Close Friends"?
People are increasingly adding their professional and acquaintance contacts as Facebook friends.
It makes sense to limit the visibility of your posts — to cater to different audiences.
Going forward, that's easy as Facebook provides ample controls:
However, the issue is that unless you had set it up like that from the start, there's no existing function to automatically change the visibility of all of your old wall posts and photos to "Only Me", "Close Friends", and so on.
This poses a problem, because manually going through posts one-by-one as far back as December 2004 is not viable:
When introducing Timeline, Facebook did provide a function to change all posts from "Public" to "Friends":
But it is not yet possible to change the audience of posts older than a certain date to "Only Me", "Close Friends", "Friends; Except: Acquaintances", etc.
However, it's clear that the underlying functionality to do that is there somewhere.
Are any functions available in the Facebook APIs for potentially building an application for that? If so, which?
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Click your profile picture in the top right of Facebook. Click in the top right of the post. Select Edit date. Enter a new date and click Save.
Limiting the audience of your previous posts cannot be reversed in one click. If you have shared a previous post with a custom audience, such as Friends except Acquaintances or Close Friends, Limit Past Posts won't change the audience for those past posts.
Tap in the top right of Facebook, then tap your name. Scroll down to the post you want to edit. Tap in the top right of the post, then tap Change Audience. Select who can see the post from the options that appear (example: Public, Friends, Only Me).
There is no functionality to edit user posts via API at all – not for content, not for privacy settings.
Typically apps can only edit posts they created. [1]
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