Do you play games on Facebook that practically demand you
post continually on your Wall? Do you
annoy the heck out of your Facebook friends?
Maybe you’ve found countermeasures to mitigate the spam to your friends,
but you still face an ugly spamfest when viewing your own Wall. Assuming you wish to continually post to your Wall from
games and periodically delete them, here is an efficient method to delete them.
Deleting is easier if the posts you want to delete are all
consecutive (right next to each other); if they aren’t, be careful!
Go to your Facebook Wall.
Keep scrolling down and clicking on “Older Posts” to load older
posts. Review the posts to make sure you
know what you want to delete. It's
better to delete from top to bottom.
Scroll back up to the first post you want to delete. Position your mouse over the button on the
upper right corner of the first post you want to delete. Click the left mouse button to open the menu
for the post. Hit "d" on your
keyboard. Press enter twice. If you delete from top to bottom, you don't
have to worry about repositioning the mouse due to differences in post lengths.
Repeat as desired.
You'll need to get used to the timing and sequence of button pushing, as
well as other idiosyncrasies you may encounter.
Repeat the procedure for each block of consecutive posts you wish to
delete.
MouseKey
Probably the slowest and most annoying part of this process
is switching between the mouse and the keyboard. To bypass using the mouse, you can use a Windows
app called Mouse Key. This app lets you
control the mouse pointer and buttons using keyboard keys.
To enable the app, hold down the left Shift and Alt keys at
the same time and then press NumLock.
Windows will display a dialog box; press OK to accept. Set this up one time before you start
deleting posts. You may want to unplug
your mouse temporarily to avoid accidentally moving it.
Use "5" on the numeric keypad to emulate the left
mouse button press mentioned above. If this
doesn't work, press "/" to change the setting so that "5"
does this. (There are other controls
that you can look up.) After the mouse
is positioned, carefully press in sequence “5”, “d”, Enter, Enter. Repeat as desired.
Using Mouse Key and two hands on the keyboard, I can delete
about 1 post per second.
UPDATE, Feb. 23, 2012:
I got tired of deleting posts manually, so I wrote an AutoIt script to simulate the keystrokes. The script simulates an actual mouse left-click instead of relying on MouseKey. To be safe, I have the script delete only 4 posts at a time (that's how many show up on my screen at once for me to check before deleting). The posts should still be preloaded. I used conservative times for the pauses between key strokes; you may have to increase it even more if you have a slow Internet connection.
Ideally, Facebook should have a better system for controlling Wall posts.
AutoIt script
;
; AutoIt Version: 3.0
; Platform: Win9x/NT
; Author: empiresandalliesgame.blogspot.com
;
; Script Function:
; Deletes 4 consecutive facebook posts
; Posts should be preloaded!
; Hover mouse over post control button
; Press Alt-d to start deletion
; Press ESCAPE to end script
AutoItSetOption("SendKeyDelay", 200)
HotKeySet("!d", "DeletePost")
HotKeySet("{ESC}", "Terminate")
While 1
Sleep(100)
Wend
Func DeletePost()
for $count = 1 to 4
MouseClick("left")
Sleep(300)
Send("d{ENTER}")
Sleep(500)
Send("{ENTER}")
Sleep(800)
next
EndFunc
Func Terminate()
MsgBox(0, "delete fb post", "Terminated!")
exit 0
EndFunc
