While Facebook does not supply a method to auto-merge all your friends, photos, condition updates, check-ins or various other info, you could manually merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little prep work as well as persistence. Unfortunately, you won't be able to migrate or re-create every one of your Data.
Merge Two Facebook Accounts
Bulk Download Data
As a first step I suggest to mass download your Facebook Data, a procedure I have defined previously. This procedure could take a while and also the archive will certainly act as a very little backup, should you determine to shut off or erase your account. It won't be of excellent assistance in restoring any kind of Data, though.
Quickly, most likely to your General Account Settings and also click Download a copy of your Facebook Data at the bottom.
This will certainly lead you to a page where you could download your details as well as obtain a copy of what you have shared on Facebook.
Now do start your archive on this initial page. Furthermore locate where it says You can also Download an expanded archive ... and click the corresponding link. This will assist you to the Expanded Archive Download page where you will certainly be asked to re-enter your password.
Now here is where you will require patience. Depending on how huge your primary and also your expanded archive are and the number of various other archives are in the line, this could take a while. And also keeping that I imply a couple of hours.
Note that you have to Download both archives, to receive a full backup of your account!
Once your archive is readily available for download, this is exactly what the web page will resemble.
Although your personal pictures are expected to be consisted of in the archive, you should download your Facebook Photos separately. Not just is this procedure one more back-up, it is likewise a great deal faster and may offer you with more alternatives.
Restore Friends
As discussed over, you will not have the ability to Restore or migrate all your Data which includes your friends. You should manually add friends to your new account. Unfortunately, it is not feasible export your Facebook friends to a third party account and after that re-import them to a new Facebook account.
Nonetheless, you could import calls from third party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have contact details of the majority of your friends on accounts beyond Facebook, you could take a small faster way. Most likely to your brand-new Facebook account and also import get in touches with from any type of supported third party account (CSV data are also sustained) by means of the Discover Friends page.
While you could export your Facebook calls to Yahoo! Mail, it is not be feasible to re-import them to Facebook. As well as contacts imported from Facebook will definitely not be consisted of in a Yahoo! CSV documents.
I created a separate short article on how you can back up your Facebook get in touches with. Note that just 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
Below comes the huge letdown. There is no way to post 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 need to do it (semi-) manually or use 3rd party devices. Today, the archive simply acts as an individual backup, nothing more.
So exactly what are your choices? You can re-add your old friends as shown above, re-upload pictures you downloaded and install from your old account, re-tag your friends in your photos, re-join teams you were a member of, re-add Facebook apps, manually re-do all your personal Settings, including basic account and also personal privacy Settings, e.g. secure your Facebook account, include relied on calls, or hide your individual Settings. I want I had good information, yet as I claimed before, you could not auto-merge 2 accounts or Restore Data, so you basically start from scratch.
What You Will Lose
You will shed a great deal! Your entire Timeline and also News Feed background will be gone, including posts or pictures you were labelled in, locations you checked into, all the Sorts you issued or obtained, or teams you belonged to, all your account and personal privacy Settings, and other documents you accumulated in time. Your photos as well as friends are really all you could take with you, everything else has to be re-created by hand.
Shut off or Shut Your Old Facebook Account.
If you determine to shut down or close your old Facebook account, make sure to add your new account as an admin to any type of Groups or Pages you manage. Or else you will lose accessibility to them.
As soon as you have actually taken care of admin duties, have actually downloaded and install all your Data, as well as make certain you intend to totally remove your account, log into the Facebook account you wish to close, as well as go to the Delete My Account page to start the procedure. We have formerly discussed How To Correctly Close Your Facebook Account.
Verdict
Facebook allows you to Download an archive of your account. Nevertheless, there is no matching system in position to restore your Data, ought to the account obtain jeopardized. Facebook never ever planned to offer a recover function; instead they were lawfully forced to supply a way for customers to download their Data. As a result, individuals are entrusted to just half-baked remedies or unpleasant workarounds, need to they prefer to merge or move accounts.
Exactly what would certainly trouble you most if you needed to transfer to a brand-new Facebook account?