Do you need to clean up your Facebook profile?

by L.A. Times Posted 2013/01/24 16:00:00

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Got a Facebook profile with vulgarities or embarrassing pages you shouldn't have liked? Now there's a way to clean them up. A trio of Kent State University undergrads have put together the "Facewash" app that'll search through a user's Facebook activity and content for items that the user may want to hide or delete. That could include status updates, photo captions, and comments users left or received as well as pages and links that were liked.

"We realized that there's a lot of content that perhaps someone might not want a future employer to see," Daniel Gur, 22, said Wednesday. Gur created the app over the weekend with two friends and fellow computer science majors from his school -- Camden Fullmer, 21, and David Steinberg, 24. The three students built Facewash in less than two days while at a hackathon at the University of Pennsylvania.

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sglmom 2013/01/26 08:24:25

No

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Here's a thought ..

the ADVICE I would give to anyone ..
INCLUDING the LA TIMES ..
is to first REFLECT on what you are doing ..
before you commit it to a posting on-line ..

(besides .. these things are NOW .. (gasp) archived in the LoC .. )
so even with the app .. the backups are available for SEVERAL years of viewing ..
(yep .. quite a record of your most inane, silly, and downright 'WHAT THE?" postings)
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lenutaa_mirceaa 2 days ago

Yes

what is facebook profile?

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XxJamberxX 2013/02/18 04:43:23

No

I only joined recently so I have no damage yet....

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Shiyorisama 2013/02/01 21:25:42

No

Nope :).

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Carlo 2013/02/01 15:00:13

No

WTF

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kiwimac 2013/01/31 07:01:14

No

Not really.

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nicesteve 2013/01/31 01:39:11

No

Not yet. However, It's an excellent idea for me to learn how to do so,
because I might almost certainly have to make use of that in the future.

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nessia 2013/01/30 22:45:27

No

NO HOW BUT CREDIT

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Ben 2013/01/30 20:27:09

Yes

I'm 20 now and about to turn 21, when I was a kid,, I put and did stuff on there that im not to proud of, I glad i can clear that up haha. currently I cant find the app :/

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Mike 2013/01/30 17:56:04

No

because I don't have one, and never will again!

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TheMayor 2013/01/30 16:16:32

No

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... I simply closed my FaceBook account.

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Mike to TheMayor 2013/01/30 17:57:20

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Wish more would do that, and we could send Zuckerf**k to the Bankruptcy Court ! lol

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MK 2013/01/30 13:09:30

Yes

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I have a Facebook from 2008 that I do not use anymore, and I've always wanted to clear it.

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twenty7d 2013/01/30 06:24:33

Yes

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Well i hardly use it anymore anyway.

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Heisenberg 2013/01/30 05:48:15

Yes

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Yes, I just did that yesterday in fact. =)

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viola 2013/01/30 02:09:47

No

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my profile is fine,
just need to cut down the number of "friends" i have.

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cc 2013/01/30 01:53:46

No

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I can clean that up myself thank you!

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baboula 2013/01/30 00:23:35 (edited)

No

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Think b-4 posting anything and if you need to think about whether to do it or not, the chances are good that you shouldn't post it

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Tattoo Nana 2013/01/30 00:16:34

Yes

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i think if we were all honest, there would be pages or comments that we wish we hadn't been to on FB. In my case, I am on disability and will no longer work, but my parents do occasionally cruise through and check my page, and I have a LOT of pages and photo's that I "liked" that are on topics they don't necessarily care for.

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Slayer Tudd 2013/01/29 23:52:06
baboula to Slayer ... 2013/01/30 00:25:33

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how old are you?

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Slayer ... to baboula 2013/01/30 01:00:27

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35 years of age

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Ramón 2013/01/29 17:54:31

No

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I don't put anything on there I wouldn't say in person to anyone I meet.

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Ben 2013/01/29 15:09:34

No

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Nobody is forcing you to have a facebook account.

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zionosp... to Ben 2013/01/29 23:41:25

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Not yet.

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Ben to zionosp... 2013/02/01 12:48:57

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Dun dun DUNNNNNNNN! Yeah that would be scary. One day, social media might be a computer chip in our brains.

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Mike to Ben 2013/01/30 17:59:05

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Unless that Zuckerf**k ever gets his way ! lol

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Avi Rosen 2013/01/29 14:00:49

No

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I used caution ever since I started using it as per what goes in...

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Lucy Krueger 2013/01/29 03:09:35

Yes

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I'd like to delete every status I made in 2009 and 2010.I was such an idiot then.

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plowboy 2013/01/29 00:43:50

No

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I never like anything that I wouldn't want my kids and grand kids to see so facewash is not needed.

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macy 2013/01/28 23:49:00

No

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Because I don't put crap like that on there.

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kiara 2013/01/28 23:16:04
pennie 2013/01/28 22:26:23

No

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never talk about anyone on my face book..my face book is borring I just put events for the whole family..that's all I use it for ... like letting everyone know about our family reunion, and lacation, I'm tooooo grown to be messy like I see other.

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blumunofky 2013/01/28 22:13:51

No

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I don't because I don't participate in "social media" unless absolutely necessary. Indiscriminate use can put you in contact with some very creepy people. If I wouldn't want to meet them in reality, I surely will not try to encounter them virtually. By the same token, people whom you'd rather not insult -- potential employers, for example-- might be offended by some inane thing you post. Like most moral decisions, if you have to ask yourself, "Should I?" -- DON'T. (My personal view is that Facebook is evil; it demeans precious concepts such as friendships, distracts people from more productive activities, and makes us technologically dependent cripples.

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pennie to blumunofky 2013/01/28 22:28:09

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good advice...."Should I"--The Don't.

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johnadams 2013/01/28 21:17:43

Yes

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they not into any dogdgey dealings are they not that I like to sound like a prude can you trust them to clean up your act shouldn,t facebook allow you to or is it more of the big brother

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El Prez 2013/01/28 20:32:00

Yes

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Yes, I need to clean it right off. This a lame assed idea and a waste of time.

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Robert Strobel 2013/01/28 20:22:49

No

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No it is just fine

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Red Branch 2013/01/28 19:29:54

No

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Oh my, I wasn't aware that there were profiles.

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pennie to Red Branch 2013/01/28 22:29:55

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yep....and some are just not cool, that is what some kids are talking about saying I was bullied on face book...just turn the crap off.....

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Red Branch to pennie 2013/01/28 23:24:41

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Thanks, I knew there were profiles, it is just that I have not filled my out. That is really too bad.
What can you turn off.?

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