Have no fear, the next time you make an errant comment on Facebook you won’t have to delete it forever.  Facebook rolled out comment editing along with a history of edits.  Rival Google+ has had this popular functionality since its inception, something that appears to be used with regularity.

Editing a Facebook comment is simple, but currently must be performed on the web version — no support for mobile or webiste comment widgets exists.  A nice feature with the comment editing system is that a comment history will also accompany all comments so the initial context can still be found.

In order to edit a comment, simply find the comment in question:

Hover over the comment so that the Edit/Delete icon will show up:

Then just edit your comment and save.  You will then see “Edited” next to the timestamp.  In this example I went back and added the pound symbol in front of the hashtag that I was talking about:

To see the full comment history, click on that “Edited” button and the comment history box will pop up:

The comment changes are rolling out this week, look for the functionality in your News feed soon!

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