[Talk] MF#K: How to remove Facebook content programmatically (Round II)

Abstract:

After the first attempt to remove content from Facebook with a script, in other words, "programmatically":

• (Hands-on Haskell) Delete your Facebook account or just remove content: https://www.meetup.com/MoedegruppeFunktionelleKoebenhavnere/events/rqbcdlyxgbgc/

It showed that it's very easy to retrieve data with the Facebook Graph API, but it's not possible to delete:

• https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.12/user/likes#Deleting
• https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2.12/user/feed#delete
• https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/user/albums#Deleting
• https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/user/photos#Deleting
• https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/user/tagged_places#Deleting

and the few interfaces that allow deleting, requires the content to be created with the Facebook Graph API app (no private person does this).

Well, I don't give up that easy so in this next Meetup I will give a talk on how you can delete content from Facebook "programmatically" and I will showcase the script that cleansed my Facebook Profile !!!

Note: After the talk, the script, will be released under an Open Source License for others to use, if they want to cleanse their profile as well :)

About Me:

I am Ramón Soto Mathiesen, a passionate computer scientist, with flair for business, that advocates for correctness, code-quality and high-standards but always with the customer in focus.

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We have set up a collaboration with Prosa, who generously offered to provide a location for our regular meetups. Please see Prosa's Calendar for more details: Prosa Calendar (https://www.prosa.dk/kalender/hele-kalenderen/)

The ADA meeting room fits about 25 people and if we need more space, we can use the canteen (PASCAL), which has a capacity of at most 50 (fire regulation).

Regards,

Ramón and Joakim