How to Share a Memory on Facebook
Facebook gathers your old posts under Memories, and passing one along takes a few seconds.
- Open Facebook and choose Memories from the menu beside your feed.
- Find the day you want, then tap Share.
- Add a note if you’d like, and share it.
Some memories can’t be shared. Facebook keeps sharing turned off when the original post wasn’t shareable, and things other people posted to your timeline usually aren’t. If the menu has moved since this was written, Facebook’s help page has the current steps.
Can you add a photo to a memory?
No. Memories replays a post the way you first made it, so if there was no photo that day, there’s no way to attach one now. You can share the memory and put a photo on that new post, but the original stays as it is.
Why the day you were looking for might not be there
Memories can only hand back the days you posted about. For most of us that’s a thin slice of the year: a trip, a birthday, a good photo, the occasional piece of news.
The rest of it never got posted. What you ate, who you were worried about, the thing your kid said in the car, how the light was that week. Those tend to be the ones that are strangest and best to read years later, and no feed has a copy of them.
exactly 4 years ago
Friday, Jul 8, 2022
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Drove out to the valley. Stood there a while.
Keeping your own
Little Memory is a small iPhone journal for those days. You write one line about today, which takes about fifteen seconds, and it comes back to you a week later, a month later, and on this date every year after that. It’s been running since 2011, with over 1,000,000 memories saved by over 30,000 people, and Apple has featured it three times.
A sentence is enough. Rained all afternoon. Sam started walking. Good soup. You can add a photo when the day calls for one, and some days the photo is the whole entry.
Your journal is private by default. There’s no social login, nothing is posted anywhere, you can search every year of it in seconds, and you can export the whole thing whenever you like. It stays yours even if you close a social account someday.
If it’s the looking back you like
That’s the part most people are really after, and it’s the part Memories does well. There’s more on doing it with your own days on the on this day journal page, and if your photo memories have started coming up thin, the Timehop comparison covers the same ground.
Little Memory is on the App Store if you’d like to start tonight. One line about today, and next year it’ll be waiting for you.
