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Comment by samstave | Hacker News Reader

It would be pretty awesome for FB to have a "Selective Memory" feature... where you can apply filters to the timeline such as "pictures minus those with [ex-girlfriend] tagged in them" "pictures where place does not equal [bar/club]"

etc...

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That would be a great app--Facebook content management utility. Write a few queries, like the UI equivalent of

  UPDATE posts SET visibility = CLOSE_FRIENDS WHERE ts < NOW() - 3600 * 24 * 365

  DELETE FROM posts p WHERE COUNT(SELECT id FROM tags t WHERE t.post_id = p.post_id AND t.user_id = EX_GIRLFRIEND_ID)=1

Back when Facebook was still wet behind the ears, before the whole apps platform was created, such "power user" features were occasionally available... via SQL injection. Ah, those were simpler times.

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