Combine Two Facebook Accounts
While Facebook does not supply a way to auto-merge all your friends, pictures, standing updates, check-ins or other info, you could by hand merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little prep work and patience. Regrettably, you won't have the ability to migrate or re-create all your Data.
Combine Two Facebook Accounts
Mass Download Data
As a primary step I suggest to mass download your Facebook Data, a procedure I have actually explained previously. This procedure can spend some time and also the archive will act as a marginal backup, ought to you make a decision to shut down or erase your account. It won't be of great assistance in bring back any Data, though.
Quickly, most likely to your General Account Settings and click Download a copy of your Facebook Data near the bottom.
This will certainly lead you to a page where you can download your details and also get a copy of just what you have shared on Facebook.
Now do start your archive on this first page. In addition find where it states You could likewise Download a broadened archive ... as well as click the respective link. This will certainly guide you to the Expanded Archive Download page where you will be asked to re-enter your password.
Currently below is where you will need patience. Depending on how large your primary and your broadened archive are and also the amount of other archives are in the line up, this could take some time. And also keeping that I indicate a number of hours.
Keep in mind that you have to Download both archives, to obtain a complete back-up of your account!
Once your archive is available for download, this is what the page will certainly look like.
Although your very own photos are expected to be included in the archive, you ought to download your Facebook Photos individually. Not only is this treatment an additional backup, it is additionally a great deal faster as well as might supply you with even more choices.
Restore Friends
As pointed out above, you won't have the ability to Restore or migrate all your Data and that includes your friends. You have to manually include friends to your brand-new account. Unfortunately, it is not feasible export your Facebook friends to a third party account and afterwards re-import them to a new Facebook account.
However, you could import contacts from third party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have contact information of a lot of your friends on accounts beyond Facebook, you could take a small faster way. Go to your brand-new Facebook account and also import get in touches with from any type of sustained third party account (CSV documents are also supported) through the Find Friends web page.
While you could export your Facebook calls to Yahoo! Mail, it is not be possible to re-import them to Facebook. As well as calls imported from Facebook will certainly not be included in a Yahoo! CSV file.
I created a separate article on how you can back up your Facebook calls. Note that only call details of friends that have agreed to have their e-mail address included in info downloads can be imported right into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Below comes the huge letdown. There is no other way to upload or otherwise import your archive to Restore or move Data from your old Facebook account to your new one. Whatever you intend to Restore, you need to do it (semi-) manually or make use of third party tools. Today, the archive merely serves as a personal back-up, nothing even more.
So exactly what are your options? You could re-add your old friends as shown over, re-upload pictures you downloaded and install from your old account, re-tag your friends in your photos, re-join teams you belonged to, re-add Facebook apps, manually re-do all your individual Settings, consisting of general account as well as personal privacy Settings, e.g. safeguard your Facebook account, include relied on get in touches with, or hide your individual Settings. I desire I had great news, but as I stated previously, you can not auto-merge 2 accounts or Restore Data, so you basically go back to square one.
What You Will Lose
You will certainly shed a lot! Your entire Timeline and also News Feed background will be gone, including articles or pictures you were labelled in, places you checked out, all the Likes you issued or received, or teams you were a member of, all your account and personal privacy Settings, and also other documents you collected in time. Your pictures as well as friends are truly all you could take with you, whatever else needs to be re-created by hand.
Deactivate or Shut Your Old Facebook Account.
If you make a decision to deactivate or shut your old Facebook account, be sure to add your new account as an admin to any type of Groups or Pages you take care of. Or else you will certainly shed accessibility to them.
When you have actually looked after admin roles, have actually downloaded and install all your Data, and also make certain you want to completely eliminate your account, log right into the Facebook account you wish to close, as well as go to the Delete My Account web page to start the procedure. We have previously clarified How you can Correctly Close Your Facebook Account.
Final thought
Facebook allows you to Download an archive of your account. Nevertheless, there is no coordinating system in place to recover your Data, ought to the account get jeopardized. Facebook never ever meant to give a restore attribute; rather they were legitimately required to provide a means for users to download their Data. As a result, users are entrusted nothing but half-baked remedies or awkward workarounds, must they prefer to merge or relocate accounts.
What would trouble you most if you had to transfer to a new Facebook account?