Salon.com > life on the internet http://www.salon.com Sat, 18 May 2013 11:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Got a dirty Facebook page? Clean it up http://www.salon.com/2013/01/24/got_a_dirty_facebook_page_clean_it_up/ http://www.salon.com/2013/01/24/got_a_dirty_facebook_page_clean_it_up/#comments Thu, 24 Jan 2013 22:02:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13181115 Embarrassing photos? Dirty things your friends have written on your wall? Let enough time pass, and it's more than Facebook's interface that can seem a little blue. 

But don't worry, there's an app for that.

A trio of Kent State University undergrads created "Facewash" to search through your Facebook activity and root out unsavory stuff on your timeline, from  drunken status updates to crude photo captions and the racy pages and links you've "liked."

"We realized that there's a lot of content that perhaps someone might not want a future employer to see," Daniel Gur, one of the app's creators, told the Los Angeles Times.

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