Curious if this deleting all old posts is related to everything you published - including publicly - or only private posts?
Likewise, if people were friends/connections on Facebook when you posted something to them, would you care if they were findable by them (they presumably could save a record of everything their friends published privately), and new friends/connections are prevented from seeing that past content?
I agree there's value in separating what people in new chapters of your life see vs. the old chapters in your life where you weren't as evolved or nuanced (potentially known as inane crap). Just trying to get an understanding of nuances if you're willing to share your take.
I don't mind too much if some link from a decade ago is no longer findable by someone I posted it to. That's what email is for. Activity records on a shared platform should be batch purgeable.
So there's a difference still from email vs. posting on Facebook - email which is usually 1-to-1 with explicit intent because you are typing in the email of each person receiving it vs. a Facebook post set as private ("Only to friends"), going to a pre-set group of friends in (unless you select to show it as Public). Do you feel there's a difference if old Facebook posts sent to "Only my friends" should still be readable by that pre-set group of friends vs. having the same ability with email?
I wouldn't be satisfied, and I think that's already available. My Facebook posts are my posts, while emails I send you are yours. In my mind, it's very much like the difference between putting up signs in my yard vs. sending letters.
I get that the legal issues are different, and that there's no requirement that Facebook provide this functionality, but they already provide some limited control via deleting accounts and individual posts, so I dont think it's unreasonable to expect.
I get what you're saying. It's interesting that there's a different mindset since they're relatively the same, perhaps the explicit nature of action of inputting an email address is the important piece. Of course Facebook also has options for "Friends of friends" to be able to view posts, and likewise any of those friends (or people you send an email to) can forward the email or a post - or even make it public in part or whole; that explicit action of taking the effort to define who you're sending it to also likely makes receiving the message/post more valuable to the reader. The ability to CC and BCC in email also has some unwritten rules as to the intent of if you're attached as a recipient of either - ability to dictate to show others "you're the main person I'm sending this to", "see who else I've sent this to", "I want you to see this but the others don't need to know that."
It's a negotiable fuzzy boundary. How would feel if your friends made private copies of posts you shared with them? ("Took a photo of your yard sign").
How would you feel if Facebook provided them a tool to help with that?
How would you feel if Facebook did that automatically as a courtesy to them?
Likewise, if people were friends/connections on Facebook when you posted something to them, would you care if they were findable by them (they presumably could save a record of everything their friends published privately), and new friends/connections are prevented from seeing that past content?
I agree there's value in separating what people in new chapters of your life see vs. the old chapters in your life where you weren't as evolved or nuanced (potentially known as inane crap). Just trying to get an understanding of nuances if you're willing to share your take.