While Facebook does not offer a method to auto-merge all your friends, pictures, status updates, check-ins or other information, you could manually merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little prep work and also patience. However, you won't be able to move or re-create all of your Data.
Can I Merge My Facebook Accounts
Bulk Download Data
As a first step I recommend to bulk download your Facebook Data, a treatment I have defined previously. This treatment can spend some time and also the archive will certainly serve as a marginal backup, need to you decide to shut down or erase your account. It will not be of fantastic aid in restoring any kind of Data, however.
Quickly, go to your General Account Settings and click Download a copy of your Facebook Data near the bottom.
This will lead you to a web page where you could download your information as well as obtain a copy of exactly what you have actually shared on Facebook.
Currently do begin your archive on this initial web page. Additionally discover where it says You can additionally Download an expanded archive ... and also click the corresponding link. This will assist you to the Expanded Archive Download web page where you will certainly be asked to re-enter your password.
Currently right here is where you will certainly need perseverance. Depending upon exactly how big your major and also your broadened archive are as well as the amount of various other archives are in the line, this can spend some time. And also with that said I indicate a few hrs.
Note that you need to Download both archives, to obtain a complete back-up of your account!
When your archive is readily available for download, this is just what the web page will appear like.
Although your own pictures are expected to be included in the archive, you should download your Facebook Photos individually. Not just is this treatment an additional back-up, it is also a great deal faster and might provide you with even more choices.
Restore Friends
As mentioned over, you will not have the ability to Restore or move every one of your Data and that includes your friends. You need to by hand add friends to your new account. Sadly, 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 contacts from 3rd party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have call information of the majority of your friends on accounts outside of Facebook, you could take a small faster way. Go to your new Facebook account and also import get in touches with from any type of sustained 3rd party account (CSV data are likewise sustained) using the Find Friends web 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 certainly not be included in a Yahoo! CSV data.
I created a different write-up on how to back up your Facebook get in touches with. Note that only call info of friends that have actually consented to have their e-mail address included in details downloads can be imported right into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Here comes the large disappointment. There is no other way to post 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 need to do it (semi-) manually or utilize 3rd party tools. Now, the archive simply works as a personal back-up, absolutely nothing even more.
So just what are your choices? You could re-add your old friends as shown above, re-upload images you downloaded and install from your old account, re-tag your friends in your photos, re-join teams you were a member of, re-add Facebook applications, by hand re-do all your personal Settings, consisting of basic account as well as personal privacy Settings, e.g. protect your Facebook account, add relied on get in touches with, or conceal your individual Settings. I desire I had great news, but as I stated previously, you could not auto-merge 2 accounts or Restore Data, so you basically start from scratch.
What You Will certainly Lose
You will shed a great deal! Your whole Timeline as well as Information Feed background will be gone, consisting of posts or photos you were tagged in, locations you checked into, all the Sorts you provided or received, or groups you were a member of, all your account as well as personal privacy Settings, and also any other documents you collected gradually. Your pictures as well as friends are truly all you could take with you, everything else needs to be re-created manually.
Shut off or Close Your Old Facebook Account.
If you decide to shut off or shut your old Facebook account, make sure to add your brand-new account as an admin to any type of Teams or Pages you take care of. Otherwise you will lose access to them.
As soon as you have actually dealt with admin functions, have downloaded all your Data, and also make certain you intend to completely remove your account, log into the Facebook account you want to close, and also check out the Remove My Account page to begin the process. We have previously clarified Ways to Appropriately 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, ought to the account get endangered. Facebook never ever planned to provide a bring back function; instead they were legally required to supply a way for customers to download their Data. Therefore, customers are entrusted to only half-baked solutions or uncomfortable workarounds, need to they want to merge or move accounts.
What would trouble you most if you had to relocate to a brand-new Facebook account?