How to Merge My Facebook Accounts
While Facebook does not provide a method to auto-merge all your friends, pictures, standing updates, check-ins or various other details, you can manually merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little preparation and also perseverance. Sadly, you will not be able to migrate or re-create all of your Data.
How To Merge My Facebook Accounts
Bulk Download Data
As a first step I suggest to bulk download your Facebook Data, a treatment I have actually defined formerly. This procedure could take a while and also the archive will work as a very little backup, should you make a decision to shut off or erase your account. It will not be of wonderful help in bring back any Data, though.
Briefly, most likely to your General Account Settings as well as click Download a copy of your Facebook Data near the bottom.
This will certainly lead you to a page where you could download your details and also get a copy of what you have shared on Facebook.
Currently do begin your archive on this first page. Additionally find where it states You can likewise Download an increased archive ... and click the corresponding link. This will lead you to the Expanded Archive Download web page where you will certainly be asked to re-enter your password.
Now right here is where you will need persistence. Depending upon exactly how big your main and also your increased archive are as well as the amount of various other archives remain in the line up, this could take some time. As well as with that said I mean a few hrs.
Keep in mind that you must Download both archives, to obtain a complete back-up of your account!
Once your archive is available for download, this is exactly what the web page will appear like.
Although your very own images are supposed to be consisted of in the archive, you need to download your Facebook Photos individually. Not just is this treatment another backup, it is likewise a lot faster and may give you with more options.
Restore Friends
As mentioned over, you will not have the ability to Restore or migrate all your Data and that includes your friends. You should by hand add friends to your new account. Sadly, it is not possible export your Facebook friends to a third party account and afterwards re-import them to a new Facebook account.
Nonetheless, you can import get in touches with from third party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have call details of most of your friends on accounts beyond Facebook, you can take a tiny shortcut. Most likely to your new Facebook account and import contacts from any kind of sustained third party account (CSV files are also supported) through the Discover Friends web page.
While you can export your Facebook calls to Yahoo! Mail, it is not be feasible to re-import them to Facebook. And also contacts imported from Facebook will definitely not be consisted of in a Yahoo! CSV data.
I composed a separate post on the best ways to support your Facebook contacts. Keep in mind that only contact information of friends that have actually agreed to have their e-mail address included in information downloads can be imported right into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Below comes the huge letdown. There is no way to publish or otherwise import your archive to Restore or move Data from your old Facebook account to your brand-new one. Whatever you want to Restore, you need to do it (semi-) manually or utilize 3rd party tools. Right now, the archive simply acts as a personal back-up, absolutely nothing even more.
So just what are your alternatives? 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 were a member of, re-add Facebook applications, by hand re-do all your individual Settings, consisting of general account and personal privacy Settings, e.g. secure your Facebook account, add relied on get in touches with, or conceal your individual Settings. I wish I had excellent news, but as I stated previously, you can not auto-merge two accounts or Restore Data, so you basically start from scratch.
What You Will certainly Shed
You will shed a lot! Your entire Timeline as well as Information Feed history will certainly be gone, including posts or photos you were identified in, locations you checked into, all the Sorts you issued or obtained, or groups you belonged to, all your account and also personal privacy Settings, and also any other documents you built up over time. Your images and friends are really all you could take with you, everything else has to be re-created by hand.
Shut off or Shut Your Old Facebook Account.
If you decide to shut down or shut your old Facebook account, make certain to add your new account as an admin to any Teams or Pages you take care of. Otherwise you will lose access to them.
Once you have dealt with admin duties, have actually downloaded and install all your Data, and make certain you wish to completely remove your account, log right into the Facebook account you intend to shut, and also go to the Remove My Account web page to start the procedure. We have actually formerly described How To Correctly Shut Your Facebook Account.
Final thought
Facebook enables you to Download an archive of your account. However, there is no matching system in position to restore your Data, should the account get compromised. Facebook never planned to offer a bring back attribute; instead they were legitimately required to offer a way for customers to download their Data. As a result, individuals are entrusted nothing but half-baked solutions or awkward workarounds, need to they desire to merge or relocate accounts.
What would trouble you most if you needed to move to a new Facebook account?