This is going to sound dumb, but a few days ago I posted a joke and got a ton of great responses (comments) from my friends. Now I want to show my girlfriend and can’t find it because all I see is my most recent status update on my Wall. So, what the heck? How do I find my older stuff?
Facebook is like a lot of modern social media sites, where it keeps changing, reflecting all that’s new and current. Wait sixty seconds and the newer stuff will appear on the top of the page and push the older content down. At the bottom of the page, things just “vanish” into the ether. Sure you can click on “Older Posts” but what if it’s something from days or weeks ago?
What makes this even more puzzling is that generally when you’re looking at Facebook, you’re seeing what everyone else is writing about and talking about, not your own stuff, so your updates probably aren’t even visible at all.
So where’s it all going?
It’s on your Wall is where your status updates – and the subsequent comments from your friends – are ending up, and to find them you need to do a little bit of exploration.
Go to Facebook and look on the top left. You’ll see this:
Click on “View my Profile” and you’ll then see generally what others would see if they looked at your profile and were already friends with you. Click on the “Wall” tab:
Now you should be able to scroll down and find your witty joke and all the comments your friends left. If there are a number of comments, it’ll look kinda like this:
Instead of clicking on “View all X comments”, click on the date and time information. Surprise! It takes you to a page that has your original Wall status update and all the comments that everyone else has left. I find this trick darn useful when I want to archive the commentary for later reference, btw.
Oh, and if you find that your status update isn’t on your Wall, scroll to the bottom of the page and you’ll see our friend “Older Posts”. Click on it and scroll down again.
Hope that helps you out and I hope your girlfriend finds your joke witty! If you need more Facebook help, do spend the time to poke around here on the site.
I missed 2 days of fb posts, but it is taking forever to scroll back … and also when I get close to the posts I missed reading, something happens and I end up back at the most recent posts. there must be an easy way to get there to read those posts. please help.
my son and his family are living in fear, a man assaulted my son in March, the cops are dragging their feet, they claim they need more proof. I have learned there were posts on facebook that may be the evidence we need to take to the cops but I am not friends on facebook with the guy so how do I search for these posts? My son reported the posting to facebook abuse when he discovered them on his face book page but all they did was remove the posts. Any ideas on how to get a screen shot or the archived posting?
This works great ! Thanks
1st get this app
https://www.facebook.com/appcenter/searchforposts?fb_source=appcenter
Then click on the time , where is says “your name here” commented on this post X hours ago.
It will take you to your post.
I need my old facebook page with yahoo!
I actually posted a poem about my self in 2011 i guess and now i can’t find it….i forgot about the poem i wrote and now i need it really bad.P.S i tried it your way…it didn’t work.
+1 for Search My Posts
https://apps.facebook.com/searchmyposts/
I wrote an app just to solve this problem:
http://www.facebook.com/appcenter/searchforposts
I’ve been using “Facebook Search My Posts” for a while now, and it works really great.
It’s a Facebook application, so you don’t have to leave Facebook, and it doesn’t ask too much permissions: https://apps.facebook.com/searchmyposts/
go to your profile see activity log and there you can choose show either posts of others, your posts, and so on
There is a Facebook application called “Search My Feed”:
https://apps.facebook.com/search-my-feed/
That let you search you old statuses and a some of the posts made on your news feed.
Hi, I am trying to find posts on a group I administrated over a year ago. The group was a private business group. Is it possible to retrieve? Thank you
I got a post on my wall from a friend, but my friend said they did NOT send it. How can this happen ?
When I go to read my post where different people sent me something it only show’s 5 or 6 and I can’t get my “old post”. Please help!!!
I can’t see my old post on my wall !
My trouble is happening with my other Facebook Pages (not my personal one). I get some notifications (all notifications page) for most things happening on that wall, but not happenings on other walls. My comments to other walls only rarely show up in “recent activity”, most of the time not, and I also don’t get any notification if someone replies to my comment on another wall. This is really ridiculous cuz there’s no way of keeping track of my activity on other walls?!! Yet, I do receive notification if someone likes my comment on someone else’s wall.
My notification settings are set to ALL in ALL categories.
Looking for advice on this topic, I came to this site via google, and for one shining moment, based on the caricature of Mr. Taylor, I thought it was an “Ask Wayne Coyne” site. I’m slightly disappointed, however grateful for the info herein.
These are old updates, FB developers are working hard on app, just wondering why they are not creating some tools like searching your old post from the wall.
You may like to checkout this cool application:
http://apps.facebook.com/topstats/
You can also use Archivedbook (http://archivedbook.com) to review old status, wall messages, and some other things from your profile and also your friends’ profile.
I’m try to view my old Dallas cowboy message I received a couple of days ago on Facebook and now I can no longer find it.
When I go to my Wall, I see all of my postings. I want to specifically see what others have posted to my wall. Yes I can scroll down, but all I see is the stuff that I posted.
Before the new profile, there was a way to see “just what I posted”, “just what others posted”, and “both”. I want the “just what others posted” option. I know what I have posted to my wall, but would like to weed it out to see specifically what others have posted.
Is there a way to do this any longer?
Instead of “View my Profile”, Kathy, just click on your name and you’ll see the profile everyone else sees AND you can delete Wall postings, etc.
Facebook has changed and the “view my profile” is no longer there. Now what?
Another way could be this app: http://apps.facebook.com/get-my-life-back
It’s a beta but works fine.
this way can wee see our very post on our wall? I guess it must be 3 year old…
Dave, I’ve poked around and can’t see any way to search by date or otherwise zip back a long way. Oh! One possibility: export everything, then search locally on disk for the wall post in question, then see if there’s a link back to Facebook’s actual update. That might well work. See this:
https://www.askdavetaylor.com/how_to_download_personal_information_facebook.html
actually I would like to find an OLD wall post… if i follow your technique here, I’d have to keep clicking on “older posts” about a ZILLION times… how do i search for an older post that would be on let’s say “older posts” click number 483 without clicking on it 483 times?