While Facebook does not offer a way to auto-merge all your friends, images, status updates, check-ins or other details, you can by hand merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little preparation and also perseverance. Unfortunately, you won't be able to migrate or re-create all of your Data.
How To Merge Two Facebook Accounts
Bulk Download Data
As a primary step I recommend to bulk download your Facebook Data, a treatment I have defined formerly. This treatment could take some time as well as the archive will certainly work as a marginal backup, should you make a decision to shut down or delete your account. It will not be of great help in recovering any Data, however.
Quickly, go to your General Account Settings and also click Download a copy of your Facebook Data near the bottom.
This will lead you to a web page where you can download your details and also obtain a duplicate of just what you have actually shared on Facebook.
Now do start your archive on this very first page. Furthermore locate where it says You could likewise Download an increased archive ... and click the respective link. This will certainly guide you to the Expanded Archive Download page where you will certainly be asked to re-enter your password.
Currently below is where you will certainly require perseverance. Depending on how big your primary as well as your expanded archive are and also how many various other archives remain in the line up, this can spend some time. And also keeping that I indicate a number of hrs.
Note that you should 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 look like.
Although your own images are supposed to be consisted of in the archive, you ought to download your Facebook Photos independently. Not only is this procedure one more back-up, it is also a great deal faster as well as may give you with more options.
Restore Friends
As pointed out over, you will not be able to Restore or migrate all your Data which includes your friends. You have to manually include friends to your new account. Unfortunately, it is not feasible export your Facebook friends to a 3rd party account then re-import them to a brand-new Facebook account.
However, you can import calls 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 can take a little shortcut. Go to your brand-new Facebook account as well as import contacts from any type of supported third party account (CSV documents are likewise supported) using the Find Friends page.
While you could export your Facebook get in touches with to Yahoo! Mail, it is not be possible to re-import them to Facebook. And calls imported from Facebook will definitely not be consisted of in a Yahoo! CSV file.
I created a different short article on ways to support your Facebook contacts. Keep in mind that just call information of friends that have consented to have their e-mail address consisted of in details downloads can be imported right into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Right here comes the large disappointment. There is no way to submit or otherwise import your archive to Restore or move Data from your old Facebook account to your new one. Whatever you want to Restore, you have to do it (semi-) manually or utilize 3rd party devices. Right now, the archive simply acts as a personal backup, absolutely nothing more.
So what are your alternatives? You can re-add your old friends as revealed over, re-upload images you downloaded from your old account, re-tag your friends in your pictures, re-join teams you belonged to, re-add Facebook applications, manually re-do all your personal Settings, including general account and also personal privacy Settings, e.g. protect your Facebook account, include relied on get in touches with, or hide your personal Settings. I want I had great information, but as I said previously, you can not auto-merge 2 accounts or Restore Data, so you essentially start from scratch.
What You Will Lose
You will lose a great deal! Your whole Timeline and Information Feed history will certainly be gone, including blog posts or images you were tagged in, locations you explored, all the Sorts you released or received, or teams you were a member of, all your account and personal privacy Settings, and also other records you built up over time. Your images as well as friends are actually all you could take with you, every little thing else has to be re-created by hand.
Deactivate or Shut Your Old Facebook Account.
If you choose to shut down or shut your old Facebook account, make certain to add your brand-new account as an admin to any type of Teams or Pages you handle. Or else you will shed accessibility to them.
When you have actually taken care of admin duties, have downloaded all your Data, and also are sure you intend to entirely remove your account, log right into the Facebook account you want to close, and see the Remove My Account page to kick off the process. We have actually previously clarified Ways to Effectively Shut Your Facebook Account.
Verdict
Facebook enables you to Download an archive of your account. Nonetheless, there is no matching system in position to recover your Data, should the account get compromised. Facebook never planned to supply a recover function; rather they were legally forced to use a method for users to download their Data. Therefore, individuals are left with just half-baked solutions or unpleasant workarounds, should they desire to merge or move accounts.
What would certainly trouble you most if you had to relocate to a new Facebook account?