How to Combine Facebook Accounts
While Facebook does not offer a method to auto-merge all your friends, images, standing updates, check-ins or other info, you could by hand merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little preparation and persistence. Unfortunately, you will not have the ability to migrate or re-create all of your Data.
How To Combine Facebook Accounts
Bulk Download Data
As an initial step I advise to mass download your Facebook Data, a procedure I have defined previously. This treatment could take some time and also the archive will certainly function as a very little back-up, must you decide to deactivate or remove your account. It won't be of excellent assistance in recovering any type of Data, however.
Briefly, most likely to your General Account Settings and click Download a copy of your Facebook Data near the bottom.
This will certainly lead you to a page where you could download your information and get a duplicate of just what you have actually shared on Facebook.
Currently do begin your archive on this initial page. In addition find where it claims You can also Download a broadened archive ... and click the particular web link. This will certainly lead you to the Expanded Archive Download page where you will be asked to re-enter your password.
Now below is where you will need patience. Relying on how large your main and your expanded archive are and the amount of various other archives remain in the line up, this could take some time. And keeping that I suggest a couple of hrs.
Note that you should Download both archives, to receive a full backup of your account!
As soon as your archive is offered for download, this is what the web page will appear like.
Although your personal photos are intended to be consisted of in the archive, you need to download your Facebook Photos individually. Not only is this treatment another backup, it is also a lot faster and also might provide you with even more choices.
Restore Friends
As stated above, you won't have the ability to Restore or migrate every one of your Data which includes your friends. You need to by hand add friends to your new account. However, it is not possible export your Facebook friends to a third party account and then re-import them to a brand-new Facebook account.
However, you can import calls from third party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have contact details of the majority of your friends on accounts beyond Facebook, you could take a tiny faster way. Go to your new Facebook account and import contacts from any sustained third party account (CSV documents are additionally supported) by means of the Locate Friends page.
While you could export your Facebook calls 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 data.
I wrote a separate post on how you can support your Facebook calls. Keep in mind that only get in touch with information of friends who have actually agreed to have their email address consisted of in information downloads can be imported into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Below comes the big letdown. There is no chance to upload or otherwise import your archive to Restore or transfer Data from your old Facebook account to your brand-new one. Whatever you intend to Restore, you have to do it (semi-) manually or utilize third party tools. Today, the archive simply functions as a personal backup, absolutely nothing even more.
So just what are your choices? You could re-add your old friends as shown over, re-upload pictures you downloaded from your old account, re-tag your friends in your photos, re-join teams you belonged to, re-add Facebook apps, manually re-do all your individual Settings, consisting of basic account and personal privacy Settings, e.g. protect your Facebook account, include trusted calls, or conceal your individual Settings. I wish I had excellent information, however as I stated in the past, you can not auto-merge two accounts or Restore Data, so you essentially go back to square one.
What You Will Shed
You will certainly lose a lot! Your entire Timeline and also News Feed background will be gone, including blog posts or images you were labelled in, areas you checked out, all the Likes you released or received, or teams you were a member of, all your account as well as personal privacy Settings, as well as other records you accumulated gradually. Your images and also friends are really all you can 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 shut down or shut your old Facebook account, make sure to include your new account as an admin to any Teams or Pages you handle. Or else you will shed accessibility to them.
Once you have dealt with admin roles, have actually downloaded all your Data, and also make certain you intend to totally eliminate your account, log into the Facebook account you want to close, and check out the Erase My Account web page to start the procedure. We have actually formerly clarified How To Appropriately Shut Your Facebook Account.
Verdict
Facebook permits you to Download an archive of your account. However, there is no matching system in place to restore your Data, needs to the account get jeopardized. Facebook never ever meant to offer a bring back function; instead they were legally required to supply a method for customers to download their Data. Therefore, users are entrusted to just half-baked solutions or unpleasant workarounds, should they want to merge or relocate accounts.
What would certainly bother you most if you had to transfer to a new Facebook account?