Want to review posts, reactions or photos you’ve shared on Facebook? The social network has special functions to go back in time and rekindle memories.
Facebook is both a guestbook, a photo album, a logbook and a discussion space. We share more or less personal information, we post our best photos of the moment, we exchange with family or friends. In short, you spread your life and your opinions there! Facebook has been accessible to French Internet users since 2007. If you have been registered on the social network for a long time, and if you like to share your moods and your activities, you must have published dozens or even hundreds of comments and photos. So many small daily steps that you may have forgotten as soon as they were posted… But the social network, for its part, forgets absolutely nothing! All your interactions are recorded: comments, likes, reactions, videos watched, searches or invitations. And you can find them.
There are also several ways to find old posts and share special memories. For an exhaustive search, consult the Personal History section. For particularly notable posts – or photos that have generated a lot of reactions, it is better to go through the page called Memories, where Facebook groups them. The platform regularly offers these “memorable moments” directly in your news feed, but you can also go back in time at will.
To review a news, the best is to browse your personal history and use filters.
- Access your Facebook account with your usual web browser. In the banner at the top of the page, on the right, click on the small arrow pointing down or at your profile picturedepending on the presentation.
- In the drop-down menu that appears, click Settings and Privacythen on Personal history.
- A new page is displayed, including in the left column the list of all your interactions with Facebook, presented by day, and in ante-chronological order: comments, searches, likes, etc.
- Click on an element to display its content in the right part of the window. You have the usual tools related to a publication: I like, Comment and To share.
- To find a particular publication, click on Filter at the top of the left column.
- A dialog box appears. Curiously, the French translation is not complete, many terms being in English… To make a selection by date, start by choosing theyearby clicking on the drop-down menu Allthen the monthby clicking on the menu All. Click on To register Where Save changes depending on the presentation.
- To see only one type of post – for example, your contributions to a group – scroll through the categories in the second half of the dialog box. There are more than 60! When the one you are interested in appears, click on the box at the end of the line, then click To register Where Save changes depending on the presentation.
- The History page reloads with posts that match the criteria you set. You can combine the two kinds of criteria: date and category.
- Note that, for security, Facebook may ask for confirmation of your password before displaying the results.
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You can easily go back in time, year by year, to display the most memorable memory of a particular day.
- Go to the Facebook home page on computer and log in.
- Click on Memoriesin the left column of your homepage.
- The Memories page appears. It groups the publications posted on the current date. For example, if you visit the page on March 26, 2021, you will see your activities on March 26 of previous years. There is, alas, no way to choose the day of the memories displayed… For that, it is better to go through the personal history.
- You can repost an item from the Memories page by clicking To share under the post.
