While Facebook does not use a way to auto-merge all your friends, photos, standing updates, check-ins or various other details, you can manually merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little preparation and perseverance. Regrettably, you will not have the ability to migrate or re-create all of your Data.
How To Merge 2 Facebook Accounts
Mass Download Data
As an initial step I suggest to mass download your Facebook Data, a treatment I have actually described formerly. This treatment could take some time and the archive will serve as a minimal back-up, should you choose to deactivate or erase your account. It will not be of great assistance in recovering any type of Data, though.
Quickly, most likely to your General Account Settings and click Download a copy of your Facebook Data at the bottom.
This will lead you to a page where you can download your information and obtain a copy of just what you have shared on Facebook.
Currently do start your archive on this very first page. In addition find where it says You could also Download an expanded archive ... and click the corresponding link. This will certainly assist you to the Expanded Archive Download page where you will be asked to re-enter your password.
Now right here is where you will need persistence. Depending on just how big your major and your increased archive are and also the number of various other archives remain in the line up, this can take a while. As well as keeping that I imply a number of hours.
Keep in mind that you need to Download both archives, to receive a full backup of your account!
When your archive is offered for download, this is exactly what the web page will certainly look like.
Although your very own images are expected to be consisted of in the archive, you ought to download your Facebook Photos individually. Not just is this treatment an additional back-up, it is also a great deal faster and could give you with more choices.
Restore Friends
As mentioned over, you won't be able to Restore or move all of your Data which includes your friends. You need to by hand include friends to your brand-new account. Sadly, it is not possible export your Facebook friends to a third party account and afterwards re-import them to a brand-new Facebook account.
However, you could import calls from 3rd party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have call information of the majority of your friends on accounts outside of Facebook, you could take a tiny shortcut. Go to your brand-new Facebook account and also import contacts from any sustained 3rd party account (CSV data are likewise sustained) by means of the Locate Friends web page.
While you can export your Facebook get in touches with to Yahoo! Mail, it is not be possible to re-import them to Facebook. As well as get in touches with imported from Facebook will definitely not be consisted of in a Yahoo! CSV data.
I wrote a separate short article on how you can support your Facebook get in touches with. Keep in mind that only call info of friends that have accepted have their email address consisted of in details downloads can be imported into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Right here comes the large letdown. There is no other way to publish or otherwise import your archive to Restore or move Data from your old Facebook account to your new one. Whatever you wish to Restore, you need to do it (semi-) by hand or make use of 3rd party tools. Right now, the archive merely works as a personal backup, nothing even more.
So just what are your options? You could re-add your old friends as revealed over, re-upload images you downloaded from your old account, re-tag your friends in your photos, re-join teams you were a member of, re-add Facebook apps, by hand re-do all your individual Settings, consisting of basic account and also privacy Settings, e.g. secure your Facebook account, add trusted contacts, or conceal your individual Settings. I want I had excellent news, yet as I said in the past, you could not auto-merge two accounts or Restore Data, so you essentially start from scratch.
What You Will certainly Shed
You will certainly lose a whole lot! Your whole Timeline as well as Information Feed history will certainly be gone, consisting of messages or photos you were tagged in, locations you explored, all the Likes you provided or got, or teams you were a member of, all your account and also personal privacy Settings, as well as other documents you gathered in time. Your photos as well as friends are truly all you can take with you, everything else needs to be re-created manually.
Deactivate or Close Your Old Facebook Account.
If you make a decision to deactivate or shut your old Facebook account, make sure to add your new account as an admin to any kind of Groups or Pages you handle. Otherwise you will certainly lose accessibility to them.
Once you have dealt with admin functions, have actually downloaded and install all your Data, and make certain you wish to entirely remove your account, log right into the Facebook account you wish to shut, and visit the Erase My Account page to start the process. We have actually previously explained How you can Effectively Close Your Facebook Account.
Final thought
Facebook allows you to Download an archive of your account. However, there is no coordinating system in place to recover your Data, should the account obtain jeopardized. Facebook never ever planned to provide a restore feature; rather they were lawfully compelled to offer a way for individuals to download their Data. Because of this, customers are entrusted nothing but half-baked solutions or unpleasant workarounds, ought to they desire to merge or relocate accounts.
What would certainly trouble you most if you needed to transfer to a brand-new Facebook account?