Here's How You Can Find All Your Old Facebook Posts (Even the Deleted Ones)

​If you're anything like me, then you'll shudder at the thought of how you used to use social media so criminally. All the 'Facebook rapes', how you'd refer to yourself in the third person ("Catriona Harvey-Jenner is feeling happy because she just sat her last exam"❌​) and the god-awful tagged photos which display an array of outfits that should never have seen the light of day.

So you'll be pleased to hear that Facebook has a really easy way of allowing you to see ​all ​your old posts - even the ones you deleted.

Although there's a timeline on the right hand side of your profile, which allows you to click back and see what kind of shit you were chatting in November 2008, for example, Facebook filters the content, only showing you the 'highlights'.

But if you want a no-holds-barred, access-all-areas approach to your profile - ​including ​posts you've deleted - then follow these simple instructions.

And don't worry - it'll be for your personal viewing only. Thankfully, the inevitably embarrassing content won't be visible to your Friends, unless of course you decide to post snippets of any particularly hilarious stuff you come across.

It's got to be done on a computer, so if you still have access to one of those things, here's how you do it:

1. Click 'settings' on the top right hand corner of the screen

2. Click 'download a copy of your Facebook data'

3.  Click 'download archive', where it will then ask you to enter your password before opening the floodgates to hell.

I'm not going to lie, I've not downloaded my own yet. Not sure I'm emotionally stable enough to deal with the inevitably mortifying stuff I'll find in there. Timehop's bad enough for that.

But go, have a whirl finding your own...

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