Combine Facebook Accounts
While Facebook does not supply a means to auto-merge all your friends, images, status updates, check-ins or other information, you can by hand merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little prep work and perseverance. Unfortunately, you will not be able to move or re-create all your Data.
Combine Facebook Accounts
Mass Download Data
As a very first step I advise to mass download your Facebook Data, a procedure I have actually described formerly. This treatment could take a while and also the archive will certainly function as a minimal backup, ought to you determine to shut off or remove your account. It won't be of great assistance in restoring any type of Data, however.
Briefly, 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 could download your information as well as get a duplicate of just what you have actually shared on Facebook.
Currently do start your archive on this very first web page. Furthermore discover where it claims You could also Download an increased archive ... and also click the corresponding web link. This will certainly direct you to the Expanded Archive Download page where you will certainly be asked to re-enter your password.
Currently here is where you will certainly require perseverance. Depending on how big your main and also your broadened archive are and also the amount of various other archives are in the queue, this could take some time. And with that said I mean a number of hrs.
Note that you must Download both archives, to obtain a complete back-up of your account!
As soon as your archive is offered for download, this is just what the page will certainly appear like.
Although your personal images are intended to be included in the archive, you need to download your Facebook Photos separately. Not just is this treatment an additional backup, it is likewise a whole lot faster as well as could provide you with even more alternatives.
Restore Friends
As discussed over, you will not have the ability to Restore or migrate every one of your Data and that includes your friends. You need to by hand include friends to your brand-new account. Regrettably, it is not feasible export your Facebook friends to a 3rd party account and after that re-import them to a brand-new Facebook account.
Nonetheless, you can import get in touches with from 3rd party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have contact details of a lot of your friends on accounts outside of Facebook, you can take a little faster way. Go to your brand-new Facebook account as well as import contacts from any sustained third party account (CSV data are additionally sustained) through the Discover Friends page.
While you can export your Facebook contacts to Yahoo! Mail, it is not be feasible to re-import them to Facebook. And calls imported from Facebook will definitely not be consisted of in a Yahoo! CSV file.
I composed a separate write-up on ways to support your Facebook contacts. Keep in mind that just contact details of friends who have actually accepted have their email address consisted of in info downloads can be imported right into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Right here comes the big letdown. There is no other way to submit 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 have to do it (semi-) by hand or make use of third party devices. Right now, the archive just works as a personal back-up, nothing more.
So just what are your alternatives? You can re-add your old friends as shown above, re-upload images you downloaded and install from your old account, re-tag your friends in your photos, re-join groups you were a member of, re-add Facebook apps, by hand re-do all your individual Settings, consisting of basic account and personal privacy Settings, e.g. safeguard your Facebook account, include relied on contacts, or conceal your individual Settings. I wish I had great information, but as I stated previously, you could not auto-merge 2 accounts or Restore Data, so you basically start from scratch.
What You Will certainly Shed
You will shed a great deal! Your whole Timeline and News Feed history will be gone, consisting of posts or photos you were marked in, places you looked into, all the Sorts you issued or received, or groups you were a member of, all your account and also personal privacy Settings, and other documents you gathered with time. Your photos and friends are truly all you could take with you, whatever else has to be re-created manually.
Shut off or Close Your Old Facebook Account.
If you choose to deactivate or shut your old Facebook account, make sure to add your new account as an admin to any type of Groups or Pages you handle. Or else you will lose access to them.
When you have actually taken care of admin roles, have actually downloaded all your Data, and also make certain you wish to totally eliminate your account, log into the Facebook account you want to shut, and visit the Delete My Account web page to begin the process. We have previously explained The best ways to Correctly Close Your Facebook Account.
Conclusion
Facebook allows you to Download an archive of your account. Nonetheless, there is no matching system in position to recover your Data, ought to the account obtain jeopardized. Facebook never meant to provide a recover attribute; rather they were lawfully forced to supply a way for users to download their Data. As a result, individuals are entrusted to just half-baked services or uncomfortable workarounds, need to they want to merge or relocate accounts.
Exactly what would certainly bother you most if you had to relocate to a brand-new Facebook account?