While Facebook does not offer a method to auto-merge all your friends, pictures, standing updates, check-ins or various 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 have the ability to migrate or re-create all of your Data.
How Do You Combine Facebook Accounts
Mass Download Data
As a first step I suggest to mass download your Facebook Data, a procedure I have explained formerly. This treatment can take some time as well as the archive will serve as a marginal backup, should you make a decision to shut off or erase your account. It won't be of wonderful help in restoring any Data, however.
Quickly, most likely to your General Account Settings as well as 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 get a copy of what you have actually shared on Facebook.
Now do begin your archive on this very first page. On top of that find where it states You could also Download an increased archive ... and also click the particular link. This will assist you to the Expanded Archive Download page where you will be asked to re-enter your password.
Currently right here is where you will certainly require perseverance. Depending on just how big your primary and your expanded archive are and the number of other archives are in the line, this could take some time. As well as with that said I suggest a number of hrs.
Note that you have to Download both archives, to get a full backup of your account!
As soon as your archive is readily available for download, this is exactly what the web page will certainly appear like.
Although your very own images are intended to be consisted of in the archive, you ought to download your Facebook Photos independently. Not just is this treatment another backup, it is also a great deal faster and also might give you with even more choices.
Restore Friends
As stated over, you won't be able to Restore or migrate every one of your Data and that includes your friends. You should by hand include friends to your brand-new account. Sadly, it is not possible export your Facebook friends to a 3rd party account and after that re-import them to a brand-new Facebook account.
However, you could import get in touches with from 3rd party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have get in touch with details of a lot of your friends on accounts beyond Facebook, you could take a small faster way. Most likely to your brand-new Facebook account as well as import contacts from any type of supported 3rd party account (CSV documents are additionally sustained) using the Discover Friends web page.
While you could export your Facebook contacts to Yahoo! Mail, it is not be possible to re-import them to Facebook. And also calls imported from Facebook will definitely not be included in a Yahoo! CSV file.
I wrote a separate short article on ways to back up your Facebook contacts. Keep in mind that only call information of friends that have agreed to have their email address consisted of in information downloads can be imported right into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Right here comes the big letdown. There is no other way to publish or otherwise import your archive to Restore or transfer Data from your old Facebook account to your new one. Whatever you want to Restore, you have to do it (semi-) manually or utilize third party tools. Now, the archive simply works as an individual backup, absolutely nothing more.
So exactly what are your choices? You could re-add your old friends as shown above, re-upload photos you downloaded and install from your old account, re-tag your friends in your photos, re-join teams you belonged to, re-add Facebook applications, by hand re-do all your individual Settings, consisting of basic account and personal privacy Settings, e.g. secure your Facebook account, include relied on contacts, or hide your personal Settings. I wish I had good news, but as I said before, you could not auto-merge 2 accounts or Restore Data, so you basically start from scratch.
What You Will certainly Lose
You will certainly shed a great deal! Your whole Timeline as well as News Feed history will certainly be gone, consisting of posts or photos you were marked in, areas you explored, all the Sorts you released or obtained, or teams you belonged to, all your account and also privacy Settings, and also other documents you built up with time. Your pictures and friends are really all you can take with you, every little thing else needs to be re-created by hand.
Shut down or Shut Your Old Facebook Account.
If you decide to deactivate or shut your old Facebook account, be sure to add your new account as an admin to any kind of Teams or Pages you handle. Otherwise you will shed access to them.
Once you have cared for admin functions, have actually downloaded and install all your Data, and also are sure you want to completely remove your account, log into the Facebook account you intend to close, and check out the Remove My Account page to kick off the process. We have formerly described How you can Properly Shut Your Facebook Account.
Final thought
Facebook enables you to Download an archive of your account. Nevertheless, there is no coordinating system in position to restore your Data, must the account obtain jeopardized. Facebook never intended to provide a restore function; instead they were legitimately forced to provide a means for customers to download their Data. Consequently, users are left with nothing but half-baked remedies or awkward workarounds, should they want to merge or move accounts.
What would certainly bother you most if you had to relocate to a brand-new Facebook account?