How to Save Facebook Posts to Read Them Later

Facebook can feel a little overwhelming. What if you miss a post and you can not find it later? Thankfully, Facebook has a bookmarking feature to help you keep track of things and save them for later.

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Facebook can feel a little overwhelming. What if you miss a post and you can not find it later? Thankfully, Facebook has a bookmarking feature to help you keep track of things and save them for later.

You can save shared links, posts, photos, videos, and even pages and events. These things can all be organized into Collections. Let’s explore how to do this.

This is for iPhone, iPad, and Android using Facebook

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How to Save Facebook Posts

First, find any Facebook post you would like to save. Tap or click the three-dot hambuger icon in the upper right-hand corner of the post. Refer to below image:

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Accessing the hamburger icon for a post

Next, select Save Post (or Save Event, Save Link, etc). In my example I am saving a link. See below image:

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Accessing Save link option

After you select Save Post or Link, etc, you will immediately get the choice to save it to a collection or create a new one. See following image:

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Saving the link to collection For Later

How to Access Facebook Posts

Now, you will need to open the post (if it is a link) and tap the hamburger icon. Next, select View Saved Items. Refer to below image:

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Accessing View saved items option

The most recent items will appear at the top, and Collections can be found underneath. See below image:

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Listing of your most recent saves

Thje steps are similar for your desktop version of Facebook. That’s it! This is a nice little trick to save posts you enjoyed or to remember to read something later.

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Author: Raymond

I am Raymond Oglesby, an Information Technology (IT) specialist with 30 years in the field. I have taught Microsoft Applications and troubleshot computers in 15 countries and many States. My career was focused on mainframes and desktops from application development to implementation. I have written hundreds of programs for various architectures. I decided to start a blog to share my knowledge and experiences with you. I plan on updating this blog at least twice a week about smart phone apps to Windows. Please feel free to leave a Comment or Tweet. I would love to hear from you. Do you have a computer tech question? I will do my best to answer your inquiry. Please mention the app and version that you are using. To help me out, you can send screenshots of your data related to your question.

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