# How I Erased 5000+ Facebook Comments and Likes

<http://www.jaruzel.com/blog/How-I-Erased-5000-Facebook-Comments-and-Likes>

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## What Jamie wrote

This is neat, although I don't know why people bother doing this. Does anyone really believe that Facebook deletes things when you send a delete command? I feel with near certainty that it simply sets the information into a hidden state, not deleted. Seems like a waste of effort.

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- [WT47: Weekly Thing #47 / Mar 31, 2018](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/47/), Social Media

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