Comments made on Facebook - moving forward advice?

[JimmySon]

Just looking for a bit of advice on moving forward.
These comments were made in a small private group and are a year or two old now but obviously they're still there. The comments were not very favourable. Silly i know but it's done.

Nothing has been said & i am comfortable that nobody in the group would bring these to light, however without going too in to detail i'm unsure about 1 individual and i'm wanting to know the best way forward.

Obviously say nothing about work be it private or otherwise. For a good while now i've been thinking of deactivating my Facebook account but since Facebook actually has uses for me then creating a new one but ONLY having family and non-work colleagues on there. Very small numbers.

I know deactivating an account doesn't remove my messages, neither does 'removing' my messages as they'll still show on the other end. The only thing i can think of is a new account and a desperation - wasn't me officer as this here is my account. I really don't know.

Or is it best to just create a new account, have only friends & family, deactivate my current account, never talk about work online again and simply hope for the best that nothing ever gets said?

[efpom]

https://www.facebook.com/help/224562...ete-my-account

[Amethyst]

Can you not go and delete the comments you are concerned about ? Then have a clean out of your friends list ?

[Amethyst]

I just tried it and deleted a post I made in a group back in 2014.

[JimmySon]

I did some testing on this and found that there's no way to achieve what i wanted.

I can delete posts i made ... but that only applies to my device. The other group members can still see everything i put. Unless i delete a comment i made within about 10 minutes of making it. In other words i can't delete anything from yesterday & have that deleted on other peoples devices.

I then created a group with a couple family members & tried deleting the group - they could still see everything that was still said in that group.

I then created a group and tried deleting the people within that group - they could still see everything that had been said in the group even after i removed them. I then deleted the group and they could still see the comments.

So in short i can only think of 1 scenario where anything would come out of the group and i suppose i'd just have to hope that doesn't happen.

[Amethyst]

Ahhh it was messenger rather than a closed Facebook group. No you can't get rid of those unfortunately.