People post and upload millions of photos, videos, apps, pages, groups, events, and more make up Facebook.
Knowing how to search through the site can make finding specific items a lot easier.
Previously called Graph Search, Facebook provides a search bar at the top of the website to find things using keywords and phrases.
It lets you filter the results to refine them down to just the handful that’s most relevant to you.
The best thing about Facebook’s search bar is that it’s very straightforward: Not only are the results easy to understand, but you also can let Facebook complete the search for you.
If you’re not sure how to find something, start typing exactly what you want, and you’ll see auto-suggested words and phrases.
This search bar is geared toward natural-language searches, so an ordinarily phrased search is likely to bring you the results you want.
Find Facebook Posts by Keyword
Scrolling through someone’s page to find a Facebook post they published yesterday, or even a few hours ago, can prove quite the task if this person is a heavy user. Facebook lets you search for specific words and phrases, whether posted today or years ago.
You might use this type of Facebook search to find posts by a certain friend or to see what the public is saying about a specific topic.
1. Type a word or group of words into the search bar.
2. Click Posts at the top of Facebook to refine the search away from videos, apps, photos, etc.
3. Pick a Facebook friend from the POSTS FROM section or click Your Friends and Groups.
4. Click Anyone to see public posts. You can also sort the results by Top Posts or Most Recent, as well as show only posts you’ve already seen, posts in a certain Group, posts tagged from a particular location, and posts made on a specific date.
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