If I post a photo to Facebook and adjust the date so as to indicate that it is in the past, will this photo show up in my friends' timelines as any other recently posted photo would? Essentially what I want to do is sneak in a photo or two from a while back just to add to my profile, but not have it show up in my friends' feeds, and I was wonder if changing the date would accomplish this. If it doesn't, is there any way to make such a post?
Facebook: visibility of posts with old dates
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Facebook keeps on performing some sort of A/B testing, where few users (based on some business logic of facebook) will see one UI, while rest will see other UI.
I don't know how it could be possible at the time this question was posted, but currently you can give a try to these steps:
- On sidebar of the homepage, you will see 'triple dot' next to
News Feedlink. - Click on this. If you don't have this option, it means right now this feature is not available to you.
- You will see multiple options here, like:
i. Prioritize who to see first: Select names of friends whose posts you want to see on the top of your timeline.
ii. Unfollow people to hide their post: You can unfollow your friends right from here, so that their post will never be displayed on your TL, unless you follow them again.
iii. Reconnect with people you have unfollowed: If you had previously unfollowed someone, you can refollow them right from here.
iv. Discover Pages that match your interest: Relevant pages based on your activity will be suggested by facebook. Click like to get their notification.
v. See more options: If you have any hidden apps then you can manage them from here.
Please have a look at the screenshot:
Facebook – Will this method for apparently restricting what people can see on Facebook actually work
I don't think this is what you're looking for to control your posts. From what I can tell when trying this is that you are changing the settings of the person's news items that appear in your newsfeed. This means if you unselect "Likes and Comments" and "Photos," you will just be preventing their posts from showing in your newsfeed. It doesn't mean that it will change the behavior of the poster's post visibility.
I think what is happening to all these people is that they are hiding those posts from themselves only, but everyone else can still see these posts based on the whatever settings the poster has set.
Best Answer
If you want add a photo and do not want to show it to your friends feed, change the audience settings. Choose Only Me option in audience selector and post. After sometime (say one day) you can change the audience and it will not show friends newsfeed until some activity will not happen on the post.
When we post a photo there is no option to change the date, but once it posted we can use edit button and change the date, description and location. But it will show in edited section and anyone can see what changes have made.