Open the person’s Facebook profile, select the three-dot or options menu, and choose See Friendship if Facebook offers it. The friendship page may show when you became friends. Facebook’s controls and the details it displays can vary, so treat this as the first route to try—not a guaranteed record.
Check the person’s Facebook profile
- Search Facebook for the person and open the correct profile.
- Select the three-dot or profile options menu.
- Choose See Friendship, if that option appears.
- Look on the friendship page for the date Facebook recorded your connection. The page may also show other shared history.
A Techwalla how-to describes this menu route and says the date appears in an information box on the friendship page. That guidance is approximately 11 years old, however, so Facebook may have changed the interface or what it displays since then: Techwalla’s See Friendship instructions.
If “See Friendship” or the date is missing
You can inspect your own Facebook records through Activity Log or Access your information, but Meta’s available help pages do not guarantee that either one contains a friendship date.
Review Activity Log
Meta describes Activity Log as a history of your Facebook activity, accessible from your profile. It defaults to the current year and begins with the most recent activity. You can check it for relevant entries, but its documentation does not confirm a specific friendship-date entry: Meta’s Activity Log guidance.
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Meta’s Access your information tools summarize Facebook profile information and let you download selected categories and date ranges. The cited help page is general guidance, not a promise that a friendship date is included in the summary or download: Meta’s Access your information guidance.
What to know about the date
- If Facebook displays a date on the friendship page, treat it as the date Facebook records for the connection; it may not be the date you first met in person.
- If Facebook does not show a date, an old post or message can provide context, but it is not confirmation of when you became Facebook friends.
- Visibility settings can affect what parts of a profile or friends list people see, but the available Meta guidance does not establish that those settings specifically determine whether See Friendship appears.
Meta’s help pages explain Activity Log, account information, and downloads, but do not document a universal current path to See Friendship or confirm that every account can view a friendship date. The exact controls may differ by account or interface.
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