How to Merge Facebook Accounts
While Facebook does not offer a method to auto-merge all your friends, pictures, condition updates, check-ins or other details, you could by hand merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little preparation and also persistence. However, you will not be able to move or re-create every one of your Data.
How To Merge Facebook Accounts
Bulk Download Data
As a first step I suggest to bulk download your Facebook Data, a procedure I have actually defined formerly. This treatment can take a while as well as the archive will work as a very little backup, ought to you determine to deactivate or remove your account. It won't be of wonderful assistance in recovering any Data, though.
Briefly, go to your General Account Settings and also click Download a copy of your Facebook Data at the bottom.
This will certainly lead you to a web page where you could download your information as well as obtain a duplicate of just what you have actually shared on Facebook.
Currently do start your archive on this very first web page. On top of that locate where it says You can additionally Download an expanded archive ... and also click the corresponding link. This will assist you to the Expanded Archive Download page where you will be asked to re-enter your password.
Now here is where you will need perseverance. Depending on just how big your main as well as your increased archive are and how many other archives remain in the queue, this can take some time. And keeping that I mean a number of hours.
Keep in mind that you must Download both archives, to receive a full backup of your account!
When your archive is available for download, this is exactly what the web page will certainly resemble.
Although your own photos are intended to be consisted of in the archive, you must download your Facebook Photos independently. Not just is this treatment another backup, it is also a lot faster and also may provide you with even more options.
Restore Friends
As mentioned above, you won't have the ability to Restore or migrate all your Data which includes your friends. You should by hand add friends to your brand-new account. Sadly, it is not possible export your Facebook friends to a third party account then re-import them to a new Facebook account.
Nonetheless, you could import contacts from third party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have contact details of a lot of your friends on accounts beyond Facebook, you could take a little faster way. Most likely to your brand-new Facebook account as well as import calls from any type of supported 3rd party account (CSV data are likewise supported) by means of the Locate Friends page.
While you can export your Facebook calls to Yahoo! Mail, it is not be possible to re-import them to Facebook. And contacts imported from Facebook will certainly not be consisted of in a Yahoo! CSV documents.
I created a different write-up on the best ways to support your Facebook contacts. Keep in mind that just get in touch with info of friends that have actually consented to have their e-mail address included in info downloads can be imported right into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Right here comes the huge letdown. There is no way to upload or otherwise import your archive to Restore or transfer Data from your old Facebook account to your brand-new one. Whatever you wish to Restore, you need to do it (semi-) manually or utilize 3rd party devices. Now, the archive merely serves as a personal backup, absolutely nothing more.
So exactly what are your alternatives? You can re-add your old friends as revealed above, re-upload images you downloaded from your old account, re-tag your friends in your pictures, re-join groups you belonged to, re-add Facebook applications, manually re-do all your personal Settings, consisting of basic account and privacy Settings, e.g. secure your Facebook account, add relied on contacts, or hide your personal Settings. I wish I had good news, but as I said in the past, you could not auto-merge 2 accounts or Restore Data, so you essentially start from scratch.
What You Will certainly Shed
You will certainly shed a lot! Your entire Timeline as well as News Feed background will certainly be gone, including posts or photos you were identified in, areas you looked into, all the Sorts you issued or got, or groups you belonged to, all your account and also personal privacy Settings, as well as other documents you accumulated with time. Your pictures and also friends are truly all you can take with you, everything else has to be re-created manually.
Shut off or Shut Your Old Facebook Account.
If you determine to shut off or close your old Facebook account, be sure to add your new account as an admin to any Teams or Pages you manage. Or else you will shed access to them.
Once you have actually cared for admin duties, have actually downloaded and install all your Data, as well as make certain you want to completely eliminate your account, log into the Facebook account you wish to close, as well as visit the Delete My Account web page to kick off the procedure. We have previously described How you can Appropriately Close Your Facebook Account.
Conclusion
Facebook allows you to Download an archive of your account. Nevertheless, there is no matching system in place to recover your Data, must the account get jeopardized. Facebook never intended to offer a restore function; instead they were lawfully required to offer a way for users to download their Data. As a result, individuals are entrusted only half-baked options or unpleasant workarounds, need to they want to merge or relocate accounts.
What would certainly trouble you most if you needed to transfer to a new Facebook account?