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What began 20 years ago as a way for college students to connect with new and old friends quickly became the go-to social channel for students of all ages, adults and even grandparents.

Today Facebook is the most popular social media platform among users 50 and older — more than Instagram, X (formerly Twitter) and TikTok. In fact, more than 38 percent of Facebook users are

But after two decades, you probably would like to forget some comments, likes, photos and updates. The world’s biggest social network, with more than 3 billion users, believes it’s doing you

a favor by automatically posting a trip down memory lane, but you don’t have to be on board.

While these memories don’t appear on your public news feed, you still may wish to keep your private moments private. Here’s how to customize your Facebook settings to keep memories, both

good and bad, from showing up on your personal timeline.

1. Go to facebook.com/memories and click Notifications in the left-hand menu.

2. Choose how often you want to be notified about your memories. Your options:

memories.None. Facebook won’t serve up any memories.

You also can customize your memory settings based on people or dates.

3. On the left side under Notifications, select:

have a specific date or date range you’d rather not see in your memories.

Hiding keywords, which is an option on the Facebook app for both Android and Apple smartphones, is not listed on the website.

1. Open the Facebook app and tap the three horizontal bars ≡ in the bottom-right corner. It may also say Menu and show your profile photo.

2. Tap Memories | Settings ⚙️ at the top right.

3. The same applies here as on a computer. Below Notifications, select: