Combine Two Facebook Accounts
While Facebook does not provide a way to auto-merge all your friends, images, standing updates, check-ins or other info, you could manually merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little preparation and persistence. However, you won't have the ability to migrate or re-create every one of your Data.
Combine Two Facebook Accounts
Mass Download Data
As an initial step I advise to mass download your Facebook Data, a treatment I have actually defined formerly. This procedure could take a while and the archive will certainly work as a marginal back-up, need to you make a decision to shut down or erase your account. It won't be of terrific aid in bring back any kind 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 lead you to a web page where you could download your information and obtain a duplicate of exactly what you have actually shared on Facebook.
Currently do begin your archive on this very first page. In addition discover where it states You could likewise Download a broadened archive ... as well as click the respective link. This will lead you to the Expanded Archive Download web page where you will certainly be asked to re-enter your password.
Currently right here is where you will certainly need perseverance. Relying on just how big your main and your increased archive are and how many various other archives are in the line up, this could spend some time. And also with that I mean a couple of hours.
Keep in mind that you have to Download both archives, to receive a full back-up of your account!
As soon as your archive is available for download, this is just what the web page will appear like.
Although your own pictures are meant to be consisted of in the archive, you ought to download your Facebook Photos individually. Not just is this treatment one more back-up, it is likewise a whole lot faster as well as may provide you with even more alternatives.
Restore Friends
As discussed above, you won't be able 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 feasible export your Facebook friends to a 3rd party account then re-import them to a new Facebook account.
However, you could import get in touches with from 3rd party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have call information of most of your friends on accounts outside of Facebook, you can take a tiny faster way. Most likely to your brand-new Facebook account and also import calls from any kind of supported 3rd party account (CSV data are likewise supported) using the Discover Friends page.
While you could export your Facebook get in touches with to Yahoo! Mail, it is not be feasible to re-import them to Facebook. And also get in touches with imported from Facebook will absolutely not be included in a Yahoo! CSV documents.
I composed a different post on ways to back up your Facebook calls. Note that only call info of friends who have accepted have their e-mail address included in information downloads can be imported into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Right here comes the large disappointment. There is no way to submit or otherwise import your archive to Restore or transfer Data from your old Facebook account to your new one. Whatever you wish to Restore, you need to do it (semi-) by hand or use third party devices. Right now, the archive simply acts as a personal backup, nothing even more.
So exactly what are your options? You can re-add your old friends as revealed 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 also personal privacy Settings, e.g. secure your Facebook account, add relied on contacts, or hide your individual Settings. I desire I had good news, yet as I stated previously, you can not auto-merge 2 accounts or Restore Data, so you essentially go back to square one.
What You Will Lose
You will lose a great deal! Your whole Timeline and also Information Feed history will be gone, including blog posts or pictures you were labelled in, locations you checked into, all the Likes you issued or obtained, or teams you belonged to, all your account and personal privacy Settings, as well as any other documents you accumulated over time. Your pictures and also friends are actually all you could take with you, everything else has to be re-created manually.
Shut down or Close Your Old Facebook Account.
If you choose to shut off or close your old Facebook account, be sure to include your new account as an admin to any kind of Groups or Pages you handle. Otherwise you will certainly lose access to them.
As soon as you have actually taken care of admin roles, have actually downloaded and install all your Data, and also make certain you wish to totally remove your account, log into the Facebook account you wish to shut, and see the Erase My Account page to begin the process. We have previously explained How you can Correctly Shut Your Facebook Account.
Conclusion
Facebook permits you to Download an archive of your account. However, there is no coordinating system in position to recover your Data, ought to the account obtain endangered. Facebook never ever intended to supply a bring back attribute; instead they were lawfully required to use a method for individuals to download their Data. Consequently, individuals are left with nothing but half-baked services or uncomfortable workarounds, need to they desire to merge or move accounts.
Exactly what would certainly trouble you most if you had to transfer to a new Facebook account?