How to Combine Facebook Accounts
While Facebook does not use a way to auto-merge all your friends, pictures, status updates, check-ins or various other details, you can by hand merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little prep work and also patience. Sadly, you will not be able to migrate or re-create every one of your Data.
How To Combine Facebook Accounts
Bulk Download Data
As a first step I suggest to bulk download your Facebook Data, a treatment I have actually explained previously. This procedure can take some time and the archive will certainly function as a very little back-up, must you determine to shut off or erase your account. It will not be of fantastic help in recovering any type of Data, though.
Briefly, most likely to your General Account Settings as well as click Download a copy of your Facebook Data at the bottom.
This will certainly lead you to a web page where you can download your details and also get a duplicate of just what you have shared on Facebook.
Currently do begin your archive on this first web page. On top of that locate where it claims You could additionally Download an increased archive ... and also click the respective web link. This will guide you to the Expanded Archive Download page where you will be asked to re-enter your password.
Currently here is where you will certainly require persistence. Relying on exactly how huge your major as well as your expanded archive are and also how many other archives are in the queue, this could take some time. As well as keeping that I suggest a couple of hrs.
Keep in mind that you need to Download both archives, to receive a complete backup of your account!
As soon as your archive is readily available for download, this is exactly what the page will appear like.
Although your own images are expected to be included in the archive, you ought to download your Facebook Photos individually. Not just is this treatment another backup, it is also a lot faster as well as might offer you with even more options.
Restore Friends
As mentioned over, you won't be able to Restore or move all of your Data and that includes your friends. You have to manually include friends to your brand-new account. Sadly, it is not possible export your Facebook friends to a 3rd party account and afterwards re-import them to a brand-new Facebook account.
However, you could import contacts from 3rd party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have contact details of most of your friends on accounts outside of Facebook, you can take a small shortcut. Go to your new Facebook account and import contacts from any supported third party account (CSV data are also sustained) via the Find Friends page.
While you can export your Facebook calls to Yahoo! Mail, it is not be possible to re-import them to Facebook. And also calls imported from Facebook will definitely not be consisted of in a Yahoo! CSV documents.
I wrote a separate article on ways to back up your Facebook contacts. Keep in mind that just contact details of friends that have actually consented to have their e-mail address included in information downloads can be imported right into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Here comes the big disappointment. There is no chance to submit or otherwise import your archive to Restore or transfer 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 devices. Right now, the archive merely functions as a personal backup, nothing more.
So just what are your choices? You could re-add your old friends as shown over, re-upload images you downloaded and install from your old account, re-tag your friends in your images, re-join teams you belonged to, re-add Facebook applications, manually re-do all your individual Settings, consisting of general account as well as personal privacy Settings, e.g. secure your Facebook account, include relied on get in touches with, or hide your individual Settings. I desire I had excellent news, yet as I said in the past, you can not auto-merge two accounts or Restore Data, so you essentially start from scratch.
What You Will Lose
You will lose a great deal! Your entire Timeline and also News Feed history will be gone, consisting of blog posts or images you were labelled in, areas you looked into, all the Likes you issued or received, or groups you were a member of, all your account and privacy Settings, and also any other documents you built up gradually. Your images as well as friends are truly all you could take with you, every little thing else has to be re-created by hand.
Shut down or Close Your Old Facebook Account.
If you decide to shut down or close your old Facebook account, be sure to add your brand-new account as an admin to any Teams or Pages you manage. Or else you will certainly lose access to them.
As soon as you have actually looked after admin functions, have actually downloaded and install all your Data, as well as make sure you want to totally remove your account, log into the Facebook account you intend to close, and also see the Erase My Account web page to kick off the process. We have actually formerly described How you can Effectively Shut Your Facebook Account.
Final thought
Facebook allows you to Download an archive of your account. Nonetheless, there is no matching system in position to restore your Data, should the account obtain jeopardized. Facebook never planned to offer a recover function; instead they were legally compelled to provide a means for customers to download their Data. Therefore, users are entrusted only half-baked services or unpleasant workarounds, should they prefer to merge or move accounts.
Just what would trouble you most if you had to move to a brand-new Facebook account?