To think there should be a 3 year time limit on the Facebook memories thing?

[toomuchtooold]

Facebook has just shown me something that happened nine years ago. Nine years! I don't want to know about that! I really think they should only show you stuff from up to 3 years into the past, and anything older, just label it as "a while ago" so as not to kill me with the shock of knowing it's nearly a decade since I last went out dancing or whatever.

It shouldn't be showing memories of people that you have unfriended, unless you still have pictures or something with them tagged to in your album. I got memories about someone that I had unfriended, removed the pictures and no more memories being shown.

One popped up the other day with my status going eeek I'm nearly 28, 😂😂 Ha, like 28 is so old!! Silly past me

No, I like the older ones.

I've filtered out an ex boyfriend. I like the stuff from a long time ago, just not him.

I loved this until we lost my dad. It’s just heartbreaking now

No, I love it!

I love seeing things from 11 years ago pop up.

My forever 10 year old ds passed away on 2nd January so for me I love seeing all my old memories/statuses. In fact it's the first thing I do when I wake up - check my memories on fb.

You can edit it!

Go to the memories page (facebook.com/memories, or find it in the side bar under explore) and then click on the preferences button on the top right of the screen, next to notifications. It lets you specify a date range that you don't want to be reminded of or specific people that you don't want to see.

@MuddlingThroughLife I'm so sorry

I use it to delete the twatty statuses I wrote when I was twenty-something. Literally no one cares you are hungover you utter bore.

I am sorry if it upsets people though

I’m no longer on Facebook but up until I left, my BILs wife used to, every December, post the same inane memory about the year she broke her foot slipping on ice. It would be along the lines of “golly, it’s been xx years since I skipped and broke my foot. X number of staples and a metal plate later it was ok”. Fuck off. She was fucking unreasonable about the use of the word “golly”, too.

I love the older ones as I love to see random baby pics and toddler pics of my dc. I never share them as I know people are probably bored of seeing things they’ve already seen but I might show dh and we smile about it.

When my horrible ex dh left me I started a new Facebook page and added everyone to that so I had no worries about anything from “before” popping up.

I think it’s a nice feature. You don’t have to look at it - i have it set so I have to actively click on it before it comes up.

I wish I could turn them off completely, have been upset a few times by them popping up. No longer post on there and rarely look any more, I hate FB and only used it for contacting friends when there was no other way, and now only for local groups.

I just delete memories I don't like e.g pics of ex or comments they've made. I don't think they reappear after that.

My memories go back 10 yrs now and I find them very amusing.

God ye I've just had my ex h pop up after 7 years.not a pretty sight!

@HaveSomeGrace

LOL I see what you mean!!! Who the fuck says 'GOLLY?' as a sign of being aghast? Sounds like something you would read in an Enid Blyton novel.

misses point of thread............

Seriously tho. I do like the 'facebook memories' but I get that some people don't. So they should allow you to disable the function.

(Someone said they do..... how do you do that???)

I think you can hide the memory feature by clicking on the top right hand side of them when they pop up, a hide option comes up and you can choose to hide all memories. If you want to see them again you can go into your menu (three little lines bottom right hand side of mobile app) and “memories” appear there and you can still see them.

(There’s 3 little dots on each post on Facebook on the top right hand side, if you click on that a list comes up with a hide or hide all etc option).

You do get memories from people you've un friended. We haven't spoke to my mil and Fil over a year. I blocked them and still see their names and stuff and I can't remove them from memories as I've blocked them. I'd have to unblock to do it but then you can't block again for another 48 hours and I know they'd pounce on being able to message.

@butterflysugarbaby

She uses all sorts of old fashioned words: golly, crumbs, hollibobs, kidiwinkles...

Where as I prefer to use:

Shit, crap, holidays, kids - all very simple.

Tbh I love memories as it's usually the kids or special family occasions

I like it. It reminds me of pictures of my kids that I’d forgotten I’d taken.

But then I’ve never had to block anyone and most people I have as friends are muted as I only really use Facebook for certain groups and keeping in touch with family.

The only thing I hate about it is when I see one and I have no recollection of what the hell I was referring to