While Facebook does not provide a method to auto-merge all your friends, photos, standing updates, check-ins or other details, you can manually merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little prep work as well as perseverance. Sadly, you will not be able to migrate or re-create all of your Data.
Merge Facebook Profiles
Bulk Download Data
As a very first step I advise to bulk download your Facebook Data, a treatment I have explained previously. This procedure could spend some time as well as the archive will serve as a minimal back-up, ought to you make a decision to shut down or erase your account. It will not be of great assistance in restoring any kind of Data, though.
Briefly, most likely to your General Account Settings and also click Download a copy of your Facebook Data at the bottom.
This will lead you to a page where you could download your information as well as obtain a copy of exactly what you have actually shared on Facebook.
Currently do begin your archive on this first page. In addition find where it says You can also Download an expanded archive ... and also click the respective link. This will guide you to the Expanded Archive Download web page where you will certainly be asked to re-enter your password.
Now right here is where you will certainly require patience. Relying on just how large your main and also your expanded archive are and the amount of other archives are in the line, this could take some time. And also keeping that I indicate a few hrs.
Keep in mind that you must Download both archives, to receive a full back-up of your account!
As soon as your archive is offered for download, this is exactly what the web page will certainly resemble.
Although your personal photos are meant to be included in the archive, you must download your Facebook Photos individually. Not just is this treatment another backup, it is also a great deal faster as well as may give you with more alternatives.
Restore Friends
As pointed out above, you will not have the ability to Restore or migrate all your Data and that includes your friends. You should manually include friends to your brand-new account. Unfortunately, it is not possible export your Facebook friends to a third party account and after that re-import them to a new Facebook account.
However, you can import contacts from 3rd party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have call information of most of your friends on accounts beyond Facebook, you could take a small shortcut. Go to your new Facebook account and import get in touches with from any supported third party account (CSV documents are also sustained) through the Find 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 contacts imported from Facebook will absolutely not be consisted of in a Yahoo! CSV file.
I composed a separate post on the best ways to support your Facebook contacts. Note that just get in touch with details of friends who have agreed to have their e-mail address included in information downloads can be imported right into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Below comes the big letdown. There is no chance to post or otherwise import your archive to Restore or move Data from your old Facebook account to your new one. Whatever you intend to Restore, you have to do it (semi-) manually or make use of third party tools. Today, the archive merely serves as an individual back-up, nothing even more.
So what are your alternatives? You can 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 teams you were a member of, re-add Facebook applications, manually re-do all your personal Settings, consisting of basic account and also personal privacy Settings, e.g. protect your Facebook account, include trusted get in touches with, or hide your individual Settings. I wish I had excellent news, however as I stated before, you can not auto-merge two accounts or Restore Data, so you basically go back to square one.
What You Will Shed
You will certainly lose a great deal! Your whole Timeline and also Information Feed background will be gone, including blog posts or pictures you were marked in, locations you checked into, all the Likes you provided or got, or teams you were a member of, all your account and privacy Settings, and any other records you accumulated in time. Your images as well as friends are actually all you can take with you, whatever else needs to be re-created manually.
Deactivate or Close Your Old Facebook Account.
If you choose to shut off or shut your old Facebook account, be sure to add your new account as an admin to any type of Groups or Pages you take care of. Otherwise you will certainly shed access to them.
When you have taken care of admin duties, have actually downloaded all your Data, as well as are sure you wish to completely eliminate your account, log right into the Facebook account you intend to close, as well as see the Delete My Account web page to start the process. We have formerly described The best ways to Appropriately Close Your Facebook Account.
Conclusion
Facebook permits you to Download an archive of your account. Nonetheless, there is no matching system in position to restore your Data, needs to the account get compromised. Facebook never planned to offer a bring back attribute; rather they were legitimately compelled to provide a method for users to download their Data. Because of this, customers are entrusted nothing but half-baked remedies or awkward workarounds, need to they prefer to merge or relocate accounts.
Just what would certainly trouble you most if you had to transfer to a new Facebook account?