How long have you been posting parts of your life on social media? Three years? Ten years? Thirteen years? You may cringe when you think of some of the things you posted when you were younger and braver ...or just dumber. You might think about deleting those posts, but finding them among the thousands of entries in reverse chronological order may be daunting. But there is help, in the form of instructions and apps that will help you clean up your history on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. The ease of such a cleaning varies by platform, but some apps will even let you sort by keyword. Learn how to back up your memories on your private files and then clean up what's public at Gizmodo.
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