Social Media

Twitter is the social network that you're probably most interested in when it comes to expunging older messages, and it's also the one that offers the most tools for the job.

If you want to keep a copy of your messages on your computer before you wipe them from the web, you can download your archive by opening Twitter Settings on the web and choosing Your account and Download an archive of your data.

Two of the best auto-delete tools we've come across are TweetDelete and Tweet Deleter, Jumbo for Android & iOS, which can delete old posts on both Twitter & Facebook once they reach a certain age

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Files

Deleting older files you have stored in the cloud is less about protecting you from the prying eyes of others and more about keeping yourself organized (and limiting the amount of money you spend on cloud storage every month).

In the case of Dropbox o...

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Why clean it up?

First, it means nothing from our past can come back and embarrass us.
Second, it makes it harder for advertising companies to keep track of what we're up to online.
And third (in the case of files and emails at least), it frees up space for new stuff.

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Emails

Deleting older messages frees up storage space and makes future searches faster too.

In the case of Gmail, there's no automatic way to wipe old emails, so you'll need to remind yourself to do it regularly. The search term you need to put in the box at the top of the web interface is "older...

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