Merge Two Facebook Accounts
While Facebook does not use a means to auto-merge all your friends, photos, condition updates, check-ins or various other details, you could manually merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little prep work and also persistence. Regrettably, you won't have the ability to migrate or re-create every one of your Data.
Merge Two Facebook Accounts
Mass Download Data
As a first step I recommend to bulk download your Facebook Data, a procedure I have actually described formerly. This procedure can take a while and the archive will act as a minimal backup, ought to you decide to shut off or remove your account. It will not be of fantastic assistance in restoring any Data, however.
Briefly, most likely to your General Account Settings and also click Download a copy of your Facebook Data at the bottom.
This will lead you to a page where you can download your information and get a duplicate of just what you have actually shared on Facebook.
Currently do begin your archive on this first web page. In addition discover where it states You could additionally Download an expanded archive ... and click the particular link. This will certainly direct you to the Expanded Archive Download web page where you will be asked to re-enter your password.
Now here is where you will certainly need perseverance. Relying on just how big your primary and also your expanded archive are and also the number of other archives are in the line, this can spend some time. As well as with that said I suggest a couple of hours.
Note that you have to Download both archives, to receive a full back-up of your account!
Once your archive is offered for download, this is what the web page will certainly look like.
Although your very own images are supposed to be included in the archive, you must download your Facebook Photos individually. Not only is this procedure one more back-up, it is additionally a lot faster and might offer you with even more options.
Restore Friends
As pointed out over, you won't have the ability to Restore or move every one of your Data which includes your friends. You need to by hand add friends to your brand-new account. Regrettably, it is not possible export your Facebook friends to a third party account and after that re-import them to a brand-new Facebook account.
However, you can import contacts from 3rd party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have call information of most of your friends on accounts beyond Facebook, you could take a small shortcut. Go to your new Facebook account as well as import calls from any sustained third party account (CSV files are also sustained) via the Locate Friends web page.
While you can export your Facebook get in touches with to Yahoo! Mail, it is not be possible to re-import them to Facebook. And also get in touches with imported from Facebook will absolutely not be consisted of in a Yahoo! CSV documents.
I created a separate post on the best ways to support your Facebook contacts. Note that just get in touch with info of friends that have actually accepted have their e-mail address consisted of in details downloads can be imported into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Below comes the huge letdown. There is no other way to post or otherwise import your archive to Restore or move Data from your old Facebook account to your brand-new one. Whatever you intend to Restore, you need to do it (semi-) by hand or use third party tools. Now, the archive merely functions as a personal backup, absolutely nothing more.
So what are your choices? You could re-add your old friends as revealed over, re-upload images you downloaded and install from your old account, re-tag your friends in your photos, re-join teams you belonged to, re-add Facebook applications, manually re-do all your personal Settings, consisting of basic account as well as privacy Settings, e.g. protect your Facebook account, add trusted contacts, or hide your personal Settings. I wish I had excellent information, however as I claimed before, you can not auto-merge two accounts or Restore Data, so you basically go back to square one.
What You Will Lose
You will certainly shed a great deal! Your entire Timeline and Information Feed history will be gone, consisting of articles or images you were marked in, places you checked out, all the Likes you issued or got, or groups you were a member of, all your account as well as personal privacy Settings, and also any other documents you gathered gradually. Your photos as well as friends are truly all you can take with you, whatever else needs to be re-created manually.
Shut down or Close Your Old Facebook Account.
If you determine 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 manage. Otherwise you will shed accessibility to them.
As soon as you have cared for admin roles, have downloaded and install all your Data, as well as are sure you wish to completely eliminate your account, log into the Facebook account you want to shut, as well as see the Remove My Account page to kick off the process. We have actually previously discussed How you can Properly Close 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 ever meant to supply a recover feature; instead they were lawfully forced to use a method for users to download their Data. As a result, users are entrusted just half-baked solutions or unpleasant workarounds, should they prefer to merge or move accounts.
What would certainly trouble you most if you needed to move to a new Facebook account?