While Facebook does not offer a means to auto-merge all your friends, pictures, standing updates, check-ins or various other info, you can manually merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little prep work and patience. However, you won't be able to move or re-create all your Data.
How To Combine Facebook Accounts
Bulk Download Data
As a primary step I suggest to bulk download your Facebook Data, a treatment I have defined previously. This treatment can take some time as well as the archive will certainly function as a very little backup, should you decide to deactivate or erase your account. It will not be of great aid in recovering any kind of Data, though.
Quickly, most likely 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 could download your details and obtain a duplicate of exactly what you have actually shared on Facebook.
Now do start your archive on this very first web page. On top of that locate where it says You can likewise Download an increased archive ... and also click the respective web link. This will certainly assist you to the Expanded Archive Download page where you will certainly be asked to re-enter your password.
Now below is where you will require persistence. Depending upon exactly how big your main and your broadened archive are and how many various other archives are in the line, this can spend some time. And also keeping that I suggest a few hours.
Keep in mind that you have to Download both archives, to obtain a complete backup of your account!
As soon as your archive is available for download, this is what the web page will certainly appear like.
Although your own pictures are expected to be consisted of in the archive, you should download your Facebook Photos separately. Not only is this procedure one more back-up, it is also a lot faster and may provide you with even more choices.
Restore Friends
As pointed out above, you won't be able to Restore or migrate all your Data and that includes your friends. You need to manually add friends to your new account. Unfortunately, it is not possible export your Facebook friends to a third party account and afterwards re-import them to a new Facebook account.
Nevertheless, you can import contacts from third party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have contact details of a lot of your friends on accounts beyond Facebook, you can take a small shortcut. Go to your brand-new Facebook account and import contacts from any supported third party account (CSV data are also sustained) by means of 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 also contacts imported from Facebook will certainly not be included in a Yahoo! CSV data.
I composed a separate short article on how to support your Facebook contacts. Note that only get in touch with details of friends that have actually consented to have their email address included in information downloads can be imported into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Right here comes the big disappointment. There is no chance to post or otherwise import your archive to Restore or move Data from your old Facebook account to your brand-new one. Whatever you intend to Restore, you need to do it (semi-) by hand or use third party devices. Today, the archive simply acts as an individual back-up, absolutely nothing even more.
So exactly what are your options? 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 photos, re-join groups you belonged to, re-add Facebook apps, manually re-do all your personal Settings, including basic account and also privacy Settings, e.g. safeguard your Facebook account, include trusted contacts, or hide your individual Settings. I want I had great information, yet as I claimed before, you can not auto-merge 2 accounts or Restore Data, so you basically start from scratch.
What You Will certainly Shed
You will shed a lot! Your whole Timeline and also News Feed history will certainly be gone, consisting of messages or pictures you were marked in, places you checked out, all the Likes you released or got, or groups you belonged to, all your account and also personal privacy Settings, as well as other documents you collected over time. Your images as well as friends are really all you could take with you, whatever else has to be re-created manually.
Shut down or Close Your Old Facebook Account.
If you make a decision to shut down or close your old Facebook account, be sure to add your new account as an admin to any type of Teams or Pages you take care of. Otherwise you will lose access to them.
As soon as you have actually looked after admin roles, have downloaded and install all your Data, and are sure you wish to completely remove your account, log right into the Facebook account you intend to shut, as well as visit the Remove My Account page to kick off the procedure. We have previously discussed How you can Appropriately Close Your Facebook Account.
Final thought
Facebook enables you to Download an archive of your account. Nevertheless, there is no coordinating system in position to recover your Data, needs to the account obtain jeopardized. Facebook never intended to give a bring back feature; rather they were legitimately compelled to offer a method for individuals to download their Data. Therefore, individuals are entrusted just half-baked services or unpleasant workarounds, should they want to merge or relocate accounts.
Exactly what would certainly trouble you most if you needed to transfer to a new Facebook account?