Facebook Now Lets You Search For Specific Posts… Sort Of [VIDEO]

If ever you wanted to find a specific Facebook post from one of your friends, you'd either need a small miracle or the exact date of the post to find it... and even then it was a crapshoot. A new change to the incredibly popular social media platform's search tool is suppose to make that much, much easier.

Gone are the days of endlessly scrolling back through the timeline to find a post... supposedly. According to Facebook and several other news outlets, all you have to do is enter a friend's name and a keyword like "vacation" into the search bar and Facebook will give you vacation-related post suggestions from the name of the friend you entered.

To test the new feature, I tried entering my wife's name and "wedding," since ours just happened a couple months ago. Not only did I not get any posts about our wedding, the search just did the same thing it always does. So it doesn't work on desktop yet, even though it says this on the intro page for the new feature:

After switching to a co-workers iPhone 6, we searched my name and "bowling." Despite the fact that I've posted about bowling a bunch over the past couple years, the search yielded no results.

It's pretty awesome that Facebook is working to improve their search tool, but as of right now -- it isn't working properly on desktop or mobile. Here's a video from the guy explaining how the currently broken feature doesn't work.

Note: The feature may be working now, but at the time this article was written we confirmed that it was not working on several devices.