How to Combine Two Facebook Accounts 2019
While Facebook does not offer a means to auto-merge all your friends, images, status updates, check-ins or various other information, you can by hand merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little preparation as well as perseverance. Sadly, you won't be able to migrate or re-create all of your Data.
How To Combine Two Facebook Accounts
Bulk Download Data
As an initial step I recommend to mass download your Facebook Data, a procedure I have described previously. This procedure can spend some time and also the archive will work as a marginal backup, must you decide to shut down or delete your account. It won't be of fantastic assistance in restoring any Data, though.
Quickly, go to your General Account Settings as well as click Download a copy of your Facebook Data near the bottom.
This will lead you to a page where you could download your info and also get a duplicate of exactly what you have actually shared on Facebook.
Currently do start your archive on this very first page. Additionally discover where it states You can likewise Download an expanded archive ... and also click the corresponding link. This will direct you to the Expanded Archive Download page where you will certainly be asked to re-enter your password.
Now below is where you will certainly require persistence. Relying on just how huge your major and your expanded archive are as well as the number of other archives are in the line up, this could take some time. And keeping that I indicate a few hours.
Note that you need to Download both archives, to receive a complete back-up of your account!
Once your archive is offered for download, this is just what the page will certainly resemble.
Although your personal images are expected to be included in the archive, you need to download your Facebook Photos independently. Not just is this treatment another backup, it is likewise a whole lot faster as well as may give you with more alternatives.
Restore Friends
As stated over, you won't be able to Restore or move all of your Data and that includes your friends. You have to manually add friends to your brand-new account. However, it is not possible export your Facebook friends to a third party account and then re-import them to a new Facebook account.
Nevertheless, you can import get in touches with from 3rd party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have get in touch with information of the majority of your friends on accounts beyond Facebook, you could take a tiny shortcut. Most likely to your new Facebook account as well as import get in touches with from any supported third party account (CSV documents are also supported) using 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 also calls imported from Facebook will absolutely not be included in a Yahoo! CSV documents.
I composed a different write-up on how you can support your Facebook get in touches with. Keep in mind that only contact info of friends that have actually accepted have their email address included in information downloads can be imported into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Right here comes the big letdown. There is no way to post or otherwise import your archive to Restore or move Data from your old Facebook account to your brand-new one. Whatever you want to Restore, you have to do it (semi-) by hand or utilize 3rd party tools. Now, the archive simply acts as an individual back-up, absolutely nothing even more.
So just what are your alternatives? You could re-add your old friends as revealed over, 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 personal Settings, including general account and privacy Settings, e.g. protect your Facebook account, add relied on contacts, or conceal your personal Settings. I desire I had excellent news, however as I claimed in the past, you could not auto-merge 2 accounts or Restore Data, so you essentially go back to square one.
What You Will Lose
You will lose a great deal! Your whole Timeline and also Information Feed history will be gone, consisting of blog posts or pictures you were tagged in, areas you checked out, all the Likes you issued or got, or groups you belonged to, all your account and also personal privacy Settings, and other records you gathered gradually. Your pictures as well as friends are actually all you can take with you, every little thing else has to be re-created manually.
Shut off or Shut Your Old Facebook Account.
If you choose to shut down or close your old Facebook account, make certain to add your brand-new account as an admin to any Groups or Pages you manage. Or else you will certainly lose access to them.
When you have actually looked after admin roles, have actually downloaded and install all your Data, and also make certain you intend to completely eliminate your account, log right into the Facebook account you want to close, as well as see the Erase My Account web page to start the process. We have previously discussed How To Correctly Close Your Facebook Account.
Conclusion
Facebook enables 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 endangered. Facebook never ever planned to supply a recover feature; instead they were lawfully compelled to use a method for users to download their Data. As a result, customers are left with just half-baked services or unpleasant workarounds, should they want to merge or relocate accounts.
Exactly what would trouble you most if you needed to relocate to a new Facebook account?