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Open the person’s Facebook profile, select the three-dot or profile-options menu, and choose See Friendship if it appears. Facebook’s friendship page may show when you became friends, but the control and date are not guaranteed to appear for every account.
Check the friendship page
- Search Facebook for the person and open the correct profile.
- Select the three-dot or profile-options menu on the profile.
- Choose See Friendship, if Facebook offers it.
- Look on the friendship page for the recorded connection date and any shared history Facebook displays.
This route is described in a Techwalla how-to, which says the friendship page includes when the two people became Facebook friends: Techwalla’s instructions. That guidance is about 11 years old, so treat it as a route to try, not a promise about today’s interface.
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If “See Friendship” is missing or no date appears
Facebook’s interface and the details it displays can vary. The official Meta pages available here do not document the current See Friendship control or guarantee a date for every user. Try the account-information tools below as places to inspect your own records, not as confirmed ways to retrieve a friendship date.
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Open your profile and go to Activity Log. Meta describes it as a history of your Facebook activity. Its guidance says the log defaults to the current year, starting with the most recent activity, so you may need to adjust the date range if you are looking for older records. Meta’s documentation does not confirm that the log always contains a friendship-date entry. See Meta’s Activity Log guidance.
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Check Access your information
Meta’s Access your information tools summarize information associated with your Facebook profile and let you download selected categories and date ranges. The cited guidance does not establish that a friendship date is included in the summary or download, so use this as a further place to check rather than a guaranteed export method. See Meta’s information-access guidance.
What to do if Facebook does not show a date
If neither the friendship page nor your account records show a date, Facebook’s documented tools cited here do not provide a confirmed way to recover it. Old shared posts or messages may help you work out an approximate time, but they are not proof of the date Facebook recorded the friendship. Keep that distinction clear: a date Facebook displays is a recorded connection date; a date inferred from earlier shared activity is only an estimate.
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