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How to search for old facebook posts - consider

But all that is about to change.

Facebook has announced that it is rolling out a new, beefed-up search function, which will let you search all of its public content in one go. But the change also affects posts from the past, when you may not have been so careful.

The return to the concept suggests that the site is keen to be treated as a news source, perhaps to compete more effectively with Twitter. But it seems like Facebook always wants to show those items that garnered the most engagement that is, comments, likes and shares and hide those that have the least.

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