How to Perform a Facebook Search on PC
How to Perform a Facebook Search on Android and iPhone
Let’s take a closer look at Facebook’s advanced search filters.
How to Search for Old Facebook Posts Using Filters
You can use Facebook search to find your own previous posts, your friends’ posts, or posts of non-friends without scrolling. Enter a word from the post you are looking for into the Facebook search box as shown above. On the search results screen, click on the “Posts” filter. You will be greeted by the following options. Use them to find the exact post.
Recent posts: enabling this filter will sort the posts by putting the recent ones at the top and so on.Posts you’ve seen: turning this on will show the posts you have earlier interacted with or shown interest in.Date posted: this filter will let you select the year.Posts from: you can filter between your own posts, your friends, your groups and pages, and public posts.Tagged location: will filter by selected tagged location.
How to Search within Your Profile, Someone Else’s Profile, a Page, or Group
Besides the above method, you can search for a post directly from your own profile, someone else’s profile, or within a group or page. This feature is available on both mobile and PC. Open the profile, page, or group you want to search in and click on the Search icon in the profile, which is different from the regular Facebook search. If the Search icon isn’t available (in the case of profiles or pages), click on the three-dot icon and select “Search profile/page.” Enter the search term you are looking for.
How to Search for People on Facebook
Different people will have the same name on Facebook, and it becomes difficult to find the person you are looking for. To make things easy, Facebook lets you find people based on their city, education, and work. Start by entering the person’s name in the search box, then click on the People filter and choose the required filters. If the person is friends with your friends, enable the toggle next to “Friends of friends” to find such people.
How to Search for Photos and Videos on Facebook
Similarly, you can filter out photos and videos based on parameters, such as tagged location, date posted, type of photo, posted by, and live videos. All of these filters are present under the Photos and Videos filters section. If the pictures do not load on Facebook, see if you can find the answer in this troubleshooting guide.
How to Search for Items within Facebook Marketplace
Facebook Marketplace is a great place to buy things, especially when you know how to search correctly. Enter the item you want to buy in Facebook search and click/tap on the “Marketplace” filter. You can filter the products by item condition (new/used), price, date listed, and category, and can even sort items. Apart from that, you can change the location of the marketplace by clicking on your current location. The same filters can be accessed if you search directly within Facebook Marketplace.
How to Find Facebook Pages, Groups, and Places
Similarly, if you are looking for a specific page, group, or place, you can narrow the search results using various available filters as shown below:
Pages can be found by their location, verified badge, and category.Groups can be found by their city and type of group.Places filters are based on functionality, such as delivery, takeaway, location, price, status, visited by friends, etc.You can search for events based on their type, such as online or paid events, location, event date, family friendly, categories, and popularity with friends.
How to Find Jobs on Facebook
Sadly, Meta, who owns Facebook, has removed the native feature of finding job listings on Facebook. Only users based in the U.S. and Canada can create new job postings. But you can still find hiring advertisements on Facebook by using search. Simply type popular terms like “hiring” or “looking for” followed by a job title or profession. The available posts or images will show up. You can use various advanced search filters to narrow down the results.
How to Search Facebook for Events
Events are quite popular on Facebook. You can easily find events in two ways.
Method 1: Find Events Near Me
Method 2: Find an Event Using Its Name
How to Manage and Clear Facebook Search History
Facebook offers an easy way to clear the entire search history or even individual search queries.
Clear Facebook Search History on PC
Clear Facebook Search History on Android and iPhone
Other ways to search Facebook include dedicated search engines for social media sites and social searcher. Note that you won’t be able to utilize the advanced search features without logging in or when a profile is locked. If you don’t want others to find your profile in their Facebook search, you can either lock it or make Facebook private. You can even deactivate your account if you want to stop using Facebook temporarily.
