Facebook is a social networking site where people come to interact and share their life with others. As a user, you may want to go through the past posts, videos, and photos and keep a record of when something happened. One such record to keep can be the date when the profile or the Facebook account was created.
In the past, it was easy to check when someone joined Facebook by scrolling down the profile, but currently, Facebook has disconnected that feature and you can no longer see the date when you joined Facebook.
Like in the case of many other things on social media, there are other options and ways to check someone who created an account on Facebook. There are a few steps that you can follow to check the date when a Facebook account was created.
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Currently, the networking site does not explicitly display the date you joined Facebook, instead, there is another option where you can get a rough idea when you made the earliest posts.
The most precise method is given below. Social Followers has described here the way to know your joining date. By following these simple steps, you will be able to find the date of birth and age of your account.
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Log in to your Facebook account from Facebook.com
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Go to the “Account,” then, and click on “Account Settings.”
You will find the “Download Your Information” part. Go to it and tap on “Learn More.”.
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Click on the “Download” option. A zip file of your entire history on Facebook will be compiled by Facebook. Forward it to the email address with which the account is created. You may have to wait for sometimes if the account is old and there are many things to compile. As you receive the email, you are good to move to the next step.
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Download the file attached in the email and double click to open it. Copy the folder on your desktop and double click again to open it. The “index.html” file containing all the data of your account will open as you double click on it. Next, the downloaded file of your Facebook data will open in the browser.
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In the Html page opened in your browser click on “Wall” and a page containing all the posts from the beginning will appear in front of you. You will be able to see the date when you entered the interactive world of Facebook by scrolling down to the end of the page with the help of your earliest post mentioned on it.
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Log in to your Facebook account from Facebook.com
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Go to your profile if you want to find out the creation date of your account. Else go to the profile of the one whose account information you are looking for.
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You have two options to go to the users’ profile. Either type the name of the search bar and click on the user’s Facebook name or if you have the custom URL of the profile, you can access the profile by typing Facebook.com/customurl in the browser.
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To visit the Facebook wall of the user, click on the “Wall” tab located on the left side of the users’ profile. A user’s Facebook wall is the area of a user’s Facebook profile where they can post photos, new posts, and receive messages from their friends.
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As you scroll down the user’s wall, you will see an option called “View Older Posts”, this prompts you to view more posts and activity on the wall of a user. All the actions that a user has taken on its wall are mentioned in reverse chronology by Facebook, so the first action the user took would appear as the last one.
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As you continue moving towards the end of the wall reaching the bottom of the activity feed, you will find the user’s first name (joined Facebook) find the date when the user joined the Facebook
Many times, you find yourself stuck when finding something. However, few steps taken in the right direction can make things right. This article is telling you all about the simple steps that you can take to find out when you or someone else joined Facebook and how old their account is. The information may not be found explicitly In Front of you, but it is surely there only some effort is needed to access it.
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