Merge Facebook Accounts
While Facebook does not provide a method to auto-merge all your friends, pictures, standing updates, check-ins or other information, you could by hand merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little preparation as well as patience. Regrettably, you won't be able to migrate or re-create all of your Data.
Merge Facebook Accounts
Mass Download Data
As an initial step I recommend to mass download your Facebook Data, a treatment I have actually described formerly. This treatment could take a while and also the archive will certainly function as a marginal back-up, must you decide to deactivate or remove your account. It won't be of terrific assistance in recovering any kind of Data, however.
Briefly, go to your General Account Settings and also click Download a copy of your Facebook Data near the bottom.
This will certainly lead you to a page where you can download your details as well as get a copy of exactly what you have actually shared on Facebook.
Currently do start your archive on this initial web page. In addition find where it states You could additionally Download an expanded archive ... as well as click the respective web link. This will certainly direct you to the Expanded Archive Download page where you will be asked to re-enter your password.
Now below is where you will certainly need perseverance. Depending on exactly how large your primary and your increased archive are and the number of various other archives are in the queue, this can spend some time. And with that said I mean a number of hours.
Keep in mind that you must Download both archives, to get a full backup of your account!
When your archive is offered for download, this is just what the page will certainly appear like.
Although your own photos are supposed to be included in the archive, you ought to download your Facebook Photos separately. Not just is this procedure an additional back-up, it is additionally a whole lot faster as well as may offer you with more options.
Restore Friends
As mentioned above, you will not be able 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 then re-import them to a brand-new Facebook account.
Nevertheless, you could import get in touches with from 3rd party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have contact details of a lot of your friends on accounts outside of Facebook, you can take a little shortcut. Most likely to your brand-new Facebook account and import calls from any type of supported 3rd party account (CSV data are likewise supported) by means of the Find Friends web page.
While you can export your Facebook calls to Yahoo! Mail, it is not be feasible to re-import them to Facebook. And also calls imported from Facebook will certainly not be consisted of in a Yahoo! CSV documents.
I created a different post on the best ways to back up your Facebook contacts. Note that only get in touch with details of friends who have agreed to have their e-mail address included in info downloads can be imported into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Here comes the large disappointment. There is no chance to publish 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 need to do it (semi-) manually or utilize 3rd party tools. Now, the archive just functions as an individual back-up, absolutely nothing more.
So exactly what are your options? You could 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 pictures, re-join groups you were a member of, re-add Facebook apps, manually re-do all your individual Settings, consisting of basic account and also privacy Settings, e.g. safeguard your Facebook account, include relied on get in touches with, or conceal your individual Settings. I want I had good information, however as I claimed before, you could not auto-merge two accounts or Restore Data, so you essentially go back to square one.
What You Will certainly Lose
You will certainly lose a great deal! Your entire Timeline as well as Information Feed history will certainly be gone, including articles or images you were marked in, places you explored, all the Likes you issued or got, or groups you were a member of, all your account and privacy Settings, as well as any other records you accumulated in time. Your pictures and also friends are actually all you could take with you, every little thing else needs to be re-created manually.
Shut off or Shut Your Old Facebook Account.
If you determine to deactivate or close your old Facebook account, be sure to include your new account as an admin to any Teams or Pages you take care of. Or else you will certainly lose accessibility to them.
When you have taken care of admin functions, have downloaded and install all your Data, and make certain you wish to totally eliminate your account, log into the Facebook account you want to shut, and see the Delete My Account page to begin the procedure. We have formerly discussed How you can Appropriately Close Your Facebook Account.
Conclusion
Facebook permits you to Download an archive of your account. Nonetheless, there is no coordinating system in position to restore your Data, must the account obtain compromised. Facebook never ever intended to offer a bring back function; instead they were lawfully compelled to use a way for users to download their Data. Because of this, individuals are left with only half-baked options or uncomfortable workarounds, ought to they want to merge or relocate accounts.
Just what would certainly bother you most if you had to move to a brand-new Facebook account?