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Here’s how to delete your embarrassing photos from Facebook

Photos before 2009 shouldn’t even exist on Facebook.

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Facebook might be a great social media platform to exercise your stalking skills, but it’s sort of like the online version of your grandmother’s dusty bookcase filled with old family albums: Some throwbacks are adorable, most are mortifying.

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Even if a younger you uploaded an embarrassing amount of heavily filtered PhotoBooth albums in 2008, deleting them takes just a few simple steps. Assuming your Facebook friends haven’t already taken a screenshot, here are a few tips on how to delete those old photos before they come back to haunt you.

How to delete photos from Facebook on a computer

Find the photo (or photos if there’s more than one) that you would like to permanently delete and click it. The photo should appear in a pop-up separate from the album page. Click the Options button in the bottom right.

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Select Delete This Photo and a box will appear asking if you are sure you want to carry on.

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If you are positive you never want to see this photo on Facebook again, click Delete and say your goodbyes.

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How to delete photos from Facebook via mobile

Open the Facebook app on your device and tap the menu bar on the right-hand side (this will look like three small bars stacked on top of each other). Scroll down through the options until you find Photos.

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Find the photo that you want to delete and tap it. Find the options button in the top-right corner (it looks like three small dots). Tap that and select Delete photo.

How to delete photos on Facebook
Screenshot via Facebook app

Once you tap delete, a box will appear asking to validate your decision. Tap delete.

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If you are uneasy about erasing a photo from all existence, we suggest saving it to your phone, storing it in your Google Drive, or moving the photo to a private Facebook album before deleting it permanently. Happy deleting.

 
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