How can I easily find old posts on Facebook without scrolling through a whole year?


Since you know the approximate dates to look at... click 2014 in the right hand column of your timeline. The list of years is usually down below a couple of ads. After you do that, you'll have four headers at the top of the timeline: Your name, Timeline, 2014, and "Highlights". Click highlights and you'll get a drop down box of months. Click the month you wish to look at. Note that somehow this does not put you in the middle of that section of timeline. It puts you in the month you want, but you can't scroll up to the next month... you'll just be back in current posts. But this way you can at least scroll through the target month. (Also, if you had a ton posted that month, you may have "see more" in between some posts. At least I think I've seen that, but I didn't with the months I was playing around with just now.)

The second method is to go to your timeline and click "View Activity Log" underneath your profile pic. On the next page select "Your Posts" in the left column.and then the year in the right column. This will be less useful for you for this case because you'll see everything you posted anywhere. BUT, when there are other things you're looking for in the future, you can use the other things in the left hand column to make it easier to find things (Note that two of the groups of items in the left column have a "more" after it.) If you want to search for photos you're tagged in, you can do that, or search for posts from a certain app, comments you've made on posts, etc...

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