How to Remove Everything From a Facebook Profile Page
Your Facebook Timeline, the new version of the Facebook profile page, contains a collection of posts related to your previous Facebook history. It also contains information about you, including your work history and your contact information. If you want to keep people from reading this material, you should mark it as private. You may also choose to remove it altogether. For example, after setting up a Facebook profile, you may decide to use the account exclusively for professional purposes such as editing your company Facebook pages. The account's profile in such cases would no longer need your personal information.
Remove Your About Section
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Click the "About" link on your Facebook Timeline.
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Click the "Edit" link beside "Work & Education." Click the "X" beside each employer and school to remove each entry. Click "Done Editing."
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Click the "Edit" link beside "Living." Click the "X" beside each "Current City" and "Hometown." Click "Save."
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Click the "Edit" link beside "Relationships and Family." Click the icon beside each relationship and click "Only Me" in each pop-up menu. Click "Save."
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Click the "Edit" link beside "About You." Select all the text inside the "About Me" box. Delete it. Click "Save."
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Click the "Edit" link beside "Basic Info." Delete the text in the boxes for language, religion and political views. Uncheck the box labeled "Show my sex on my timeline." Click the icons in the right of the "Birthday," "Interested In" and "Relationship Status" panes. Click "Only Me" in each pop-up menu. Click "Save."
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Click the "Edit" link beside "Contact Info." Click the icon beside each email address. Click "Hidden From Timeline" in each pop-up menu. Delete the text from the boxes for your phone numbers, screen names, addresses and website. Click "Save."
Remove Your Timeline Posts
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Click the arrow beside "Home" in the Facebook navigation bar. Click "Privacy Settings."
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Click the icon labeled "Custom" to open the Custom Privacy dialog box. Click the drop-down box labeled "These People or Lists." Select "Only Me." Click "Save Changes."
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Click "Manage Past Post Visibility" to open a new dialog box. Click "Limit Old Posts."
Remove Your Profile and Cover Photo
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Open your Timeline. Hover your mouse cursor over your profile photo to reveal the words "Edit Profile Picture." Click "Edit Profile Picture" to open a pop-up menu.
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Click "Remove" to open a confirmation dialog box. Click "Okay" to remove your profile picture.
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Hover your mouse cursor over your cover photo to reveal the words "Change Cover."
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Click "Change Cover" to open a pop-up menu. Click "Remove" to open a confirmation dialog box. Click "Okay" to remove your profile picture.
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Tips
- You cannot remove your name from your profile. However, you can edit your name through General Account Settings.
Writer Bio
Ryan Menezes is a professional writer and blogger. He has a Bachelor of Science in journalism from Boston University and has written for the American Civil Liberties Union, the marketing firm InSegment and the project management service Assembla. He is also a member of Mensa and the American Parliamentary Debate Association.