While Facebook does not provide a means to auto-merge all your friends, pictures, status updates, check-ins or various other info, you could by hand merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little prep work as well as perseverance. Sadly, you will not have the ability to move or re-create all of your Data.
How To Merge Accounts On Facebook
Mass Download Data
As a very first step I suggest to bulk download your Facebook Data, a treatment I have explained formerly. This treatment could spend some time as well as the archive will certainly act as a very little backup, need to you decide to deactivate or erase your account. It will not be of wonderful aid in recovering any Data, however.
Quickly, go to your General Account Settings and click Download a copy of your Facebook Data near the bottom.
This will certainly lead you to a web page where you can download your info as well as get a duplicate of just what you have actually shared on Facebook.
Currently do start your archive on this first page. On top of that discover where it claims You could also Download an increased archive ... and click the respective web link. This will direct you to the Expanded Archive Download web page where you will be asked to re-enter your password.
Now below is where you will require persistence. Relying on exactly how big your primary and also your broadened archive are and how many various other archives remain in the line, this can take a while. And also with that said I suggest a few hours.
Note that you must Download both archives, to get a complete back-up of your account!
Once your archive is available for download, this is what the web page will look like.
Although your own photos are meant to be included in the archive, you must download your Facebook Photos independently. Not only is this treatment an additional backup, it is likewise a great deal faster as well as could give you with even more choices.
Restore Friends
As discussed over, you won't be able to Restore or migrate every one of your Data which includes your friends. You need to manually include friends to your brand-new account. Regrettably, it is not possible export your Facebook friends to a third party account and then re-import them to a new Facebook account.
Nonetheless, you can import contacts from third party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have call information of a lot of your friends on accounts beyond Facebook, you could take a little faster way. Go to your brand-new Facebook account as well as import calls from any type of sustained third party account (CSV files are also supported) through the Locate 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 get in touches with imported from Facebook will certainly not be consisted of in a Yahoo! CSV file.
I wrote a different article on ways to back up your Facebook contacts. Keep in mind that only call info of friends that have actually accepted have their email address consisted of in information downloads can be imported into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Right here comes the large letdown. There is no way to upload or otherwise import your archive to Restore or transfer Data from your old Facebook account to your new one. Whatever you wish to Restore, you have to do it (semi-) by hand or use 3rd party tools. Right now, the archive simply functions as a personal backup, absolutely nothing more.
So what are your alternatives? You could re-add your old friends as revealed above, re-upload pictures you downloaded and install 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 privacy Settings, e.g. secure your Facebook account, include relied on get in touches with, or conceal your individual Settings. I want I had great information, yet as I stated before, you can not auto-merge 2 accounts or Restore Data, so you basically go back to square one.
What You Will Shed
You will certainly lose a great deal! Your entire Timeline and Information Feed background will certainly be gone, including articles or photos you were identified in, locations you looked into, all the Sorts you provided or obtained, or teams you belonged to, all your account and also personal privacy Settings, as well as any other records you accumulated with time. Your pictures and friends are really all you could take with you, every little thing else needs to be re-created by hand.
Deactivate or Close Your Old Facebook Account.
If you decide to deactivate or shut your old Facebook account, be sure to include your brand-new account as an admin to any type of Groups or Pages you handle. Or else you will certainly lose accessibility to them.
As soon as you have cared for admin functions, have downloaded and install all your Data, as well as are sure you intend to entirely eliminate your account, log into the Facebook account you intend to shut, and also see the Remove My Account page to kick off the procedure. We have formerly explained How To Correctly Close Your Facebook Account.
Conclusion
Facebook permits you to Download an archive of your account. Nonetheless, there is no coordinating system in place to restore your Data, needs to the account obtain compromised. Facebook never meant to provide a restore feature; instead they were legitimately compelled to use a means for individuals to download their Data. Because of this, individuals are left with just half-baked options or awkward workarounds, must they prefer to merge or move accounts.
Exactly what would certainly bother you most if you needed to transfer to a brand-new Facebook account?