How to Merge Facebook Accounts
While Facebook does not supply a way to auto-merge all your friends, pictures, status updates, check-ins or various other info, you can by hand merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little prep work and patience. Unfortunately, you will not have the ability to migrate or re-create all your Data.
How To Merge Facebook Accounts
Bulk Download Data
As a primary step I advise to bulk download your Facebook Data, a procedure I have actually described previously. This treatment can take a while and the archive will work as a marginal backup, should you decide to shut off or delete your account. It will not be of great assistance in recovering any Data, though.
Quickly, go to your General Account Settings and also click Download a copy of your Facebook Data at the bottom.
This will certainly lead you to a web page where you can download your info and obtain a duplicate of just what you have shared on Facebook.
Currently do begin your archive on this initial page. In addition find where it says You can additionally Download an expanded archive ... and also click the particular link. This will lead you to the Expanded Archive Download web page where you will be asked to re-enter your password.
Now below is where you will certainly need patience. Relying on exactly how huge your primary as well as your expanded archive are and also how many various other archives remain in the queue, this can spend some time. As well as with that said I mean a couple of hours.
Keep in mind that you have to Download both archives, to obtain a complete back-up of your account!
Once your archive is readily available for download, this is just what the web page will certainly resemble.
Although your very own images are expected to be included in the archive, you need to download your Facebook Photos independently. Not just is this treatment an additional backup, it is also a great deal faster and also may provide you with even more alternatives.
Restore Friends
As mentioned over, you won't have the ability to Restore or move all your Data and that includes your friends. You have to manually add friends to your new account. Sadly, it is not possible export your Facebook friends to a 3rd party account and after that re-import them to a brand-new Facebook account.
Nonetheless, you can import contacts from 3rd party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have contact information of the majority of your friends on accounts beyond Facebook, you can take a little shortcut. Most likely to your new Facebook account as well as import get in touches with from any type of sustained third party account (CSV documents are also sustained) via the Discover Friends page.
While you could export your Facebook get in touches with to Yahoo! Mail, it is not be feasible to re-import them to Facebook. And calls imported from Facebook will definitely not be consisted of in a Yahoo! CSV documents.
I wrote a separate short article on how to back up your Facebook get in touches with. Note that just get in touch with 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 letdown. There is no other way to upload or otherwise import your archive to Restore or move Data from your old Facebook account to your new one. Whatever you wish to Restore, you have to do it (semi-) manually or use third party devices. Now, the archive simply works as an individual backup, nothing even more.
So just what are your options? You can re-add your old friends as shown 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 apps, manually re-do all your personal Settings, consisting of basic account and also personal privacy Settings, e.g. secure your Facebook account, add relied on calls, or hide your individual Settings. I want I had good information, but as I claimed in the past, you could not auto-merge 2 accounts or Restore Data, so you basically start from scratch.
What You Will Shed
You will certainly lose a great deal! Your whole Timeline and also Information Feed history will certainly be gone, including posts or photos you were marked in, locations you looked into, all the Likes you issued or obtained, or groups you belonged to, all your account and personal privacy Settings, as well as other records you built up with time. Your images as well as friends are truly all you could take with you, whatever else needs to be re-created by hand.
Deactivate or Close Your Old Facebook Account.
If you decide to deactivate or close your old Facebook account, be sure to include your new account as an admin to any Groups or Pages you handle. Or else you will shed accessibility to them.
As soon as you have looked after admin functions, have actually downloaded and install all your Data, and are sure you intend to entirely remove your account, log into the Facebook account you want to shut, and also check out the Erase My Account page to begin the procedure. We have actually previously described How you can Effectively Shut Your Facebook Account.
Conclusion
Facebook permits you to Download an archive of your account. Nevertheless, there is no matching system in place to restore your Data, should the account obtain endangered. Facebook never ever intended to give a recover function; instead they were lawfully forced to supply a means for customers to download their Data. Consequently, customers are left with nothing but half-baked options or unpleasant workarounds, need to they prefer to merge or relocate accounts.
Exactly what would certainly trouble you most if you needed to relocate to a new Facebook account?