While Facebook does not supply a means to auto-merge all your friends, pictures, status updates, check-ins or various other information, you can by hand merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little prep work and also patience. Unfortunately, you will not be able to move or re-create all of your Data.
How To Combine Two Facebook Accounts
Mass Download Data
As an initial step I recommend to mass download your Facebook Data, a procedure I have described previously. This procedure could spend some time as well as the archive will certainly work as a minimal back-up, need to you choose to shut down or erase your account. It will not be of terrific help in recovering any type of Data, however.
Quickly, go to your General Account Settings as well as click Download a copy of your Facebook Data near the bottom.
This will certainly lead you to a page where you can download your details and get a duplicate of just what you have actually shared on Facebook.
Now do begin your archive on this very first web page. Additionally locate where it claims You can additionally Download a broadened archive ... and also click the particular link. This will certainly assist you to the Expanded Archive Download page where you will certainly be asked to re-enter your password.
Currently here is where you will need patience. Depending on exactly how big your major as well as your increased archive are and the amount of various other archives remain in the line, this could take a while. And also with that I mean a few hrs.
Keep in mind that you have to Download both archives, to obtain a complete back-up of your account!
When your archive is offered for download, this is what the web page will certainly resemble.
Although your very own images are supposed to be consisted of in the archive, you need to download your Facebook Photos separately. Not just is this treatment one more back-up, it is likewise a whole lot faster and also may offer you with even more alternatives.
Restore Friends
As stated over, you won't be able to Restore or move every one of your Data which includes your friends. You should manually include friends to your new account. Regrettably, it is not feasible export your Facebook friends to a 3rd party account and then re-import them to a new Facebook account.
Nonetheless, you can import get in touches with from third party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have call details of most of your friends on accounts outside of Facebook, you could take a little shortcut. Go to your new Facebook account and also import contacts from any kind of supported third party account (CSV documents are also sustained) via the Find Friends web page.
While you could export your Facebook contacts to Yahoo! Mail, it is not be feasible to re-import them to Facebook. And also calls imported from Facebook will certainly not be consisted of in a Yahoo! CSV data.
I composed a different post on how to support your Facebook get in touches with. Keep in mind that only get in touch with details of friends that have actually accepted have their e-mail address consisted of in info downloads can be imported into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Right here comes the huge disappointment. There is no way to post or otherwise import your archive to Restore or transfer Data from your old Facebook account to your brand-new one. Whatever you intend to Restore, you have to do it (semi-) manually or make use of 3rd party tools. Today, the archive simply acts as an individual backup, absolutely nothing even more.
So just what are your options? You could re-add your old friends as shown above, re-upload photos you downloaded from your old account, re-tag your friends in your images, re-join groups you belonged to, re-add Facebook apps, manually re-do all your individual Settings, consisting of basic account and also personal privacy Settings, e.g. protect your Facebook account, include trusted contacts, or conceal your individual Settings. I want I had excellent news, yet as I claimed before, you can not auto-merge two accounts or Restore Data, so you essentially start from scratch.
What You Will Shed
You will certainly lose a great deal! Your whole Timeline as well as Information Feed history will certainly be gone, consisting of blog posts or photos you were marked in, areas you explored, all the Sorts you released or got, or groups you were a member of, all your account as well as privacy Settings, and also any other documents you collected with time. Your photos and friends are really all you could take with you, every little thing else has to be re-created manually.
Deactivate or Close Your Old Facebook Account.
If you choose to deactivate or shut your old Facebook account, be sure to include your brand-new account as an admin to any kind of Groups or Pages you handle. Or else you will shed access to them.
Once you have dealt with admin duties, have actually downloaded and install all your Data, and also make sure you want to totally remove your account, log right into the Facebook account you want to shut, as well as check out the Remove My Account page to begin the process. We have previously described The best ways to Properly Close Your Facebook Account.
Conclusion
Facebook enables you to Download an archive of your account. However, there is no coordinating system in place to recover your Data, should the account get compromised. Facebook never intended to supply a bring back feature; rather they were legally forced to supply a method for customers to download their Data. Consequently, individuals are left with only half-baked services or awkward workarounds, ought to they desire to merge or move accounts.
Exactly what would certainly bother you most if you had to move to a new Facebook account?