Conducting a Facebook Search (hypothetical)

Factual Questions
1

Hypothetical — you’re a publicist for the main star of a future Oscar best picture nominee, and you’re a little bit on the cutthroat side so you want to follow up on a rumor that Suzy Hotthang, the apparent front-runner, posted some embarrassingly offensive shit on Facebook back around fall of 2019.

So you go to Suzy Hotthang’s FB page — so far, easy enough — and you start scrolling downhill, gradually diving past all her March and February 2025 posts. Five minutes later you’re back to November 2024.

You realize it’s going to take a LOOOOOOONG time to get back to December 2019 and start looking more carefully at the content. And you wonder to yourself, “Gee, might there be some way to jump back to December 2019 and have all the previous posts load below it, without having yank my way past all the subsequent months that have happened since then?”

2

I don’t know any details about how, but I’m pretty sure you would get a bot to do it.

3

When I go to a friend’s page, I have a Filters button that allows me to chose things like what year and month I’m looking at. I think that would work for this scenario.

This is assuming the posts are public, or you otherwise have visibility to them.

4

That would be ideal! Where does one find this Filters button?

5

On my web view, it shows up below the space for adding your own post, and above the existing posts on their wall.

I’m not sure where it is on the various phone platforms.

6

Yep, there it is, in plain sight!

(I’ve only been on Facebook for about three decades…)

7

But you’ve been consuming it straight no filters.