Merge Facebook Profiles
While Facebook does not offer a method to auto-merge all your friends, pictures, status updates, check-ins or other info, you can by hand merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little preparation and also persistence. Regrettably, you won't have the ability to move or re-create all your Data.
Merge Facebook Profiles
Bulk Download Data
As an initial step I advise to mass download your Facebook Data, a procedure I have described formerly. This treatment could take some time and the archive will certainly function as a minimal backup, should you determine to deactivate or delete your account. It won't be of terrific assistance in recovering any type of Data, though.
Quickly, go to your General Account Settings as well as click Download a copy of your Facebook Data at the bottom.
This will certainly lead you to a page where you can download your info and get a duplicate of exactly what you have actually shared on Facebook.
Now do begin your archive on this very first web page. In addition find where it says You could additionally Download a broadened archive ... and click the corresponding web 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 certainly need persistence. Depending upon how huge your primary and your broadened archive are and the number of various other archives remain in the queue, this could take a while. And with that I mean a couple of hrs.
Keep in mind that you have to Download both archives, to get a complete back-up of your account!
When your archive is offered for download, this is just what the page will look like.
Although your very 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 likewise a lot faster and also might supply you with more choices.
Restore Friends
As mentioned above, you won't have the ability to Restore or move all of your Data which includes your friends. You need to by hand add friends to your new account. However, it is not feasible export your Facebook friends to a third party account and after that re-import them to a brand-new Facebook account.
Nevertheless, you could import get in touches with from third party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have get in touch with details of a lot of your friends on accounts beyond Facebook, you could take a small shortcut. Go to your new Facebook account as well as import get in touches with from any kind of sustained 3rd party account (CSV documents are additionally sustained) using the Find Friends page.
While you can export your Facebook calls to Yahoo! Mail, it is not be possible 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 wrote a separate article on ways to back up your Facebook contacts. Note that just get in touch with information of friends who have agreed to have their email address consisted of in details downloads can be imported into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Here comes the huge letdown. There is no way 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-) by hand or utilize 3rd party devices. Now, the archive just serves as a personal back-up, nothing even more.
So just what are your options? You could re-add your old friends as shown above, re-upload photos you downloaded from your old account, re-tag your friends in your photos, re-join groups you belonged to, re-add Facebook applications, by hand re-do all your individual Settings, including basic account as well as personal privacy Settings, e.g. secure your Facebook account, include relied on get in touches with, or conceal your personal Settings. I want I had excellent news, yet as I stated previously, you can not auto-merge two accounts or Restore Data, so you basically start from scratch.
What You Will certainly Shed
You will certainly shed a great deal! Your entire Timeline and Information Feed history will certainly be gone, consisting of messages or photos you were tagged in, locations you looked into, all the Sorts you provided or obtained, or teams you belonged to, all your account and personal privacy Settings, and any other documents you accumulated over time. Your pictures and also friends are really all you can take with you, whatever else has to be re-created by hand.
Deactivate or Close Your Old Facebook Account.
If you decide to shut down or close your old Facebook account, be sure to add your new account as an admin to any type of Groups or Pages you manage. Otherwise you will certainly shed accessibility to them.
As soon as you have dealt with admin roles, have downloaded all your Data, as well as are sure you intend to completely eliminate your account, log into the Facebook account you want to shut, and go to the Erase My Account page to kick off the procedure. We have actually previously clarified The best ways to Properly Close Your Facebook Account.
Conclusion
Facebook enables you to Download an archive of your account. Nevertheless, there is no matching system in place to restore your Data, must the account obtain compromised. Facebook never ever intended to give a bring back function; rather they were legitimately required to offer a means for users to download their Data. As a result, users are left with only half-baked remedies or unpleasant workarounds, should they want to merge or move accounts.
Just what would certainly bother you most if you needed to relocate to a brand-new Facebook account?