How To Delete Comments From Facebook
Getting rid of a Post You Made
You made a post on Facebook, and now you've believed better of it. Possibly it didn't get any traction and you desire to attempt once again. Perhaps it got excessive attention and now individuals are slamming you about your viewpoints or the content of the post. Erasing the post is most likely too little too late-- the Web is excellent at taking screenshots of times when brand names put their business foot in their corporate mouth-- but it's still an option.
If you're a personal user using an individual profile and you desire to delete a post you made by yourself timeline, the process is pretty easy. Simply go to your timeline and find the post, or go to the post directly. Try to find the V icon in the upper right corner of the post box, it ought to be faint gray in color. You should see a variety of various options. You can conserve the post, edit the post, alter the date of the post, embed the post on another website, turn on or off notifications for the post, hide the post from your timeline, switch off translations for the post, or erase the post.
Simply click "delete" and a box will appear. That box notifies you that if you delete the post, it will be gone totally, which if you prefer to just remove some of the info-- like if you wished to keep the comments on the post, but not a typo you made in the post itself-- you can edit the post rather. Click to delete the post and it will be gone.
If you're a personal user using a personal profile and you wish to erase a post you made on somebody else's timeline, the procedure is basically the exact same. Go to their timeline and find the post, or go to yours and find where the post reveals up. Then look for the V icon in the corner; it will have primarily the same options. Discover the one identified delete and eliminate the post the exact same method you did above.
As an alternative to both posting on your own profile and publishing on someone else's profile, you can go to your profile and click on the "activity log" button. This will take you to a direct chronological record of all activity on your timeline. From here, you can erase any post you have actually made, be it on another profile, a Page, or your own profile. Find the post and click the pencil icon to the right of it, and click delete.
If you're a professional user using a Page, instead of a profile, you will not usually have the ability to post on other individuals's profiles or other pages directly. You cannot eliminate a post you haven't made, so that element is covered.
On the other hand, you can and must be making posts to your own timeline all the time. Therefore, you will require to have the ability to remove them if the requirement should emerge. The good news is, this is essentially the very same procedure, with an extra step and some caveats.
Firstly, there are six possible roles you may have with a page. These are Live Factor, Expert, Advertiser, Moderator, Editor, and Admin. ONLY the Editor and the Admin can produce, edit, or erase the posts that have been made as the Page. If you are not an Editor or among the Admins of the Page, you will not be able to erase a post the Page has made.
If you are an editor or admin for the Page, you will have to very first view the Page feed. To do this, click the downward-pointing triangle in the leading navigation bar of Facebook, up there in the blue beside the notices and settings buttons. The name of the Page you desire to edit should be there; click it to be given the Page itself. Alternatively, merely navigate to the Page feed.
When on the Page feed, discover the post you desire to eliminate. Like above, there will be a V icon in gray in the upper right corner of the post box. Click that and you will see the choices you have readily available to you. You can save the post, pin the post, modify it, change the date, toggle notifications, hide it, disable translations, or delete it. You can ban the user along with eliminating their comment/post.
It deserves noting that hiding a post might be beneficial in some cases, rather than simply erasing it. For instance, if you wanted to publish the post later, and forgot to arrange it, you can hide it and un-hide it later. Concealing a post makes it undetectable to everyone other than the editors and admins of the page, who have the ability to un-hide it. Nevertheless, if you still choose to delete it, just click erase and verify the removal of the post.
Removing a Post From Your Timeline
Often you wish to get rid of a post from your timeline that you didn't make. As an individual user, other individuals can leave a remark on your profile, which notifies you to take a look at it. As a Page, individuals can leave a post on your Page that may or may not show up, inning accordance with their personal privacy settings, to the rest of your audience. All of these can be possibly erased.
As an individual user, if you desire to remove a post
somebody else made on your profile, you can follow the very same actions as before. Go to your personal profile's timeline and find the post. You will eventually discover it, though depending on how old the post is or how Facebook decides to arrange posts today it might be a bit lower on your feed than you believed. Once you find it, you can click the V icon and erase the post. In case you forgot, or you skipped whatever to get to this paragraph quicker, the V icon remains in gray and remains in the upper right corner of the post.
Interestingly, the approach in the previous area, where you go to your activity feed and get rid of posts, just works for posts you have actually made. A post another person has actually made on your timeline can not be gotten rid of from the activity feed, you can just conceal it or mark it as spam.
Furthermore, this only works for posts actually published on your feed. If the post shows up on your feed due to the fact that you were tagged in it, however it's not actually on your profile, you cannot remove it. The best you can do is remove the tag, which makes it stop revealing up on your feed.
As a Page, if a personal user leaves a post on your Page feed, it will show up in the "visitor posts" app. Some pages don't show this app, while others do. For example, if you go to the Page for Coke, you can see a box on the right bar with "visitor posts" in it. However, if you go to the PC Gamer Page, you won't see that box.
In order to get rid of a post made to your Page, you require the best Page role. As anticipated, Admins and Editors both can eliminate posts, however Mediators are likewise able to get rid of posts made to your Page by other individuals. You can also merely conceal the app and make them all undetectable, though that may hurt your future engagement.
Eliminating a Remark You Made
If you are a personal user and you desire to eliminate a remark you made on a post, you can do so quickly. Nevertheless, you do have to actually find the comment, which can be challenging if you don't understand specifically where it was. Either you can find the Page or profile, then discover the post, then find the comment, or you can go to your activity feed and discover the remark straight.
If you approach from the activity feed, you can find the gray pencil icon to the right of the post you wish to eliminate and click it. You can then click to erase the post.
If you go to the post directly, you won't discover a pencil icon or a gray V icon anywhere. Rather, you will just see an icon when you hover over the post, and the icon will be a gray ..., or ellipses, which you would be more acquainted with if you're a frequent mobile user. Clicking this will bring up your possible options, which will usually simply be modify and erase, or sometimes just erase.
Normally, whether you can edit it depends on whether or not anyone has actually liked or responded to the remark. This avoids you from trolling individuals by racking up a heap of likes on a post and after that editing it to say something offensive.
As a Page, you need to discover the post that you left a talk about. There's no comparable to the activity feed for Pages, so it can be challenging if you have a big and extremely active post that you want to remove a specific comment from.
When you discover the suitable remark or sub-comment, merely hover over it and search for the gray ... that was pointed out above. Click that and you will have the edit or erase alternatives you generally would. Once again, naturally, you have to be an Admin, Editor, or Mediator for the page in order to remove comments.
Removing a Remark Somebody Else Made on Your Post
If you're a personal user and you made a post, and somebody else left a talk about that post that you wish to get rid of, you can remove it the same way you can remove a post you left. You will require to discover the specific post you wish to eliminate, but from there, just hover over it and try to find the ... icon again. You can delete the comment or you can embed it from there.
If you're a Page, the process is exactly the exact same. Discover the discuss your post and click the ... icon to see your choices. As a Page, you can decide to erase the comment or you can hide it.
There's a real usage for concealing a comment in this case. If you pick to hide the comment, it becomes undetectable to your audience as a whole, however the original poster and their pals can still see it. This can be beneficial if you have a consistent giant on your page; if you erase their comment, they are likely to make another.
If you ban them, they might make phony accounts to keep bugging you. However, if you just hide their comments, they might never ever know they're invisible.
Eliminating a Remark Somebody Else Made on Somebody Else's Post.
If you are not the person who published the remark, and you are not the person whose post the remark was made on, you can not eliminate the remark. You have two options. If you do not want to see the remark, you can click the drop-down and select "hide." This will hide the post from your exposure, though it will not affect the visibility of the post for anyone else.
The other alternative is to report the post. When you report a post, the report goes either to the Page owner or to Facebook, depending upon the context. If you report a post to a Page owner, the Page owner can opt to remove it or neglect it, at their leisure. If you report a post or remark as spam to Facebook, Facebook will evaluate the comment or post and identify if it breaches one of their guidelines. If so, they will eliminate it. You will receive an alert in your messages and in your security center when Facebook takes action or declines to do something about it.
As a last note, none of this is concerned with reviews of a business Page, which are an entire other thing. Unfavorable reviews can be spam and can be gotten rid of, however we covered that subject over here.
How To Delete Comments From Facebook, That, as far as I know, is every possible permutation of a post or remark that you could attempt to erase. If I missed one, let me know!