How to Combine Facebook Accounts
While Facebook does not supply a means to auto-merge all your friends, pictures, standing updates, check-ins or various other details, you could manually merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little preparation and perseverance. Sadly, you will not be able to migrate or re-create all of your Data.
How To Combine Facebook Accounts
Bulk Download Data
As a very first step I suggest to mass download your Facebook Data, a treatment I have defined formerly. This treatment can spend some time as well as the archive will certainly serve as a minimal backup, must you determine to shut off or delete your account. It won't be of excellent aid in bring back any kind of Data, however.
Quickly, go to your General Account Settings and click Download a copy of your Facebook Data at the bottom.
This will certainly lead you to a page where you can download your information and obtain a copy of just what you have actually shared on Facebook.
Currently do begin your archive on this initial web page. Furthermore find where it states You can also Download an expanded archive ... and click the particular web link. This will direct you to the Expanded Archive Download web page where you will certainly be asked to re-enter your password.
Currently below is where you will certainly need perseverance. Depending upon exactly how huge your primary as well as your increased archive are and also the number of various other archives are in the queue, this could take a while. And also with that said I imply a number of hours.
Keep in mind that you should Download both archives, to receive a full back-up of your account!
As soon as your archive is available for download, this is what the web page will appear like.
Although your personal pictures are expected to be consisted of in the archive, you must download your Facebook Photos individually. Not only is this procedure one more back-up, it is also a lot faster as well as could provide you with even more choices.
Restore Friends
As stated above, you won't be able to Restore or move every one of your Data and that includes your friends. You need to manually include friends to your brand-new account. Sadly, it is not feasible export your Facebook friends to a 3rd party account and then re-import them to a new Facebook account.
However, you can import calls from third party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have get in touch with information of most of your friends on accounts beyond Facebook, you can take a tiny shortcut. Go to your new Facebook account as well as import calls from any type of sustained third party account (CSV files are likewise supported) by means of the Discover Friends web page.
While you can export your Facebook contacts to Yahoo! Mail, it is not be feasible to re-import them to Facebook. As well as calls imported from Facebook will absolutely not be included in a Yahoo! CSV documents.
I composed a different post on how you can back up your Facebook get in touches with. Keep in mind that only call details of friends that have actually consented to have their email address included in info downloads can be imported into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Right here comes the large disappointment. There is no other way to upload 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 have to do it (semi-) manually or use 3rd party tools. Right now, the archive simply acts as an individual back-up, nothing even more.
So what are your choices? You could re-add your old friends as shown above, re-upload images you downloaded from your old account, re-tag your friends in your pictures, re-join teams you belonged to, re-add Facebook apps, by hand re-do all your individual Settings, consisting of basic account as well as privacy Settings, e.g. secure your Facebook account, include relied on calls, or hide your individual Settings. I want I had great information, however as I stated 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 whole Timeline and News Feed background will certainly be gone, consisting of posts or images you were labelled in, areas you checked out, all the Sorts you released or got, or groups you belonged to, all your account and privacy Settings, as well as any other documents you accumulated in time. Your images and friends are truly all you could take with you, every little thing else has to be re-created by hand.
Shut down or Shut Your Old Facebook Account.
If you make a decision to shut down or close your old Facebook account, be sure to include your brand-new account as an admin to any kind of Groups or Pages you take care of. Or else you will certainly lose accessibility to them.
When you have looked after admin roles, have actually downloaded and install all your Data, and also make sure you intend to totally eliminate your account, log right into the Facebook account you intend to shut, and also visit the Remove My Account web page to kick off the procedure. We have actually previously discussed Ways to Correctly Close Your Facebook Account.
Verdict
Facebook enables you to Download an archive of your account. However, there is no matching system in position to recover your Data, must the account obtain compromised. Facebook never intended to give a restore function; instead they were lawfully compelled to use a means for customers to download their Data. As a result, users are entrusted to just half-baked remedies or awkward workarounds, ought to they desire to merge or relocate accounts.
What would certainly trouble you most if you needed to relocate to a brand-new Facebook account?