I love Facebook, but I don't want all my contacts to be able to sift through all my old posts.
So I'd like to delete all my posts and comments from Facebook after a defined time, like, say one year.
To do this by hand is tedious – is there any way to automatically delete all my Facebook posts older than a certain timespan from Facebook?
The settings are still there when you post.
In the case below I have a list called Locked and I allow everyone except those in that list.
You can always edit this by clicking on it.
From there the same way that you will reference a friend, is the same way you would reference a list. Just type the list name. Below I used it in the hide list, but you could do the same with "Make this visible to" , just select "Specific People"
So you could say the "These people" could have been a bit more descriptive and said "These people and lists"
For older posts there is a little lock icon that shows the privacy settings for that particular item.
Are you referring to your News Feed (Top News), News Feed (Most Recent), or the Recent Activity on your profile?
I think that News Feed (Top News) only displays what Facebook considers to be most interesting to you, so I wouldn't expect your own likes/comments there. The News Feed setting that you mentioned applies to the Most Recent setting.
News Feed (Most Recent) does not display individual stories for comments and likes on posts; you would only see them under the corresponding post, if it is expanded. Are you saying that you expanded the likes/comments and you can see comments from other people but your comment is not there? Sometimes it takes some time for it to show up although it shouldn't take days (unless it was deleted).
If you are referring to the Recent Activity on your profile, there is an additional setting for that that you didn't mention. On your profile's Wall (not your News Feed), scroll to the bottom and click Edit Options. If you have hidden any kinds of stories from your Recent Activity these will be listed and you can unhide any of them by clicking the X and then Save.
As for the Photos tab, that used to be a known issue although the link to Facebook Help in that answer does not seem to work now. I don't know if that means that it should be fixed.
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There's a new app available on Android that does this called Exfoliate. It exhaustively goes through all your friend's walls and deletes posts, comments, and likes.