While Facebook does not supply a way to auto-merge all your friends, images, status updates, check-ins or other info, you could manually merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little preparation as well as perseverance. Regrettably, you will not have the ability to move or re-create all your Data.
How Do You Combine Facebook Accounts
Bulk Download Data
As a primary step I advise to mass download your Facebook Data, a treatment I have defined previously. This treatment could spend some time and the archive will act as a marginal backup, must you decide to shut off or erase your account. It will not be of fantastic aid in restoring any kind of Data, however.
Quickly, most likely to your General Account Settings and also click Download a copy of your Facebook Data near the bottom.
This will lead you to a page where you can download your details and also get a copy of what you have actually shared on Facebook.
Now do start your archive on this initial page. Additionally locate where it says You can likewise Download a broadened archive ... as well as click the corresponding web link. This will certainly assist you to the Expanded Archive Download page where you will certainly be asked to re-enter your password.
Currently right here is where you will require patience. Depending upon how huge your major and your broadened archive are and also the number of other archives are in the line up, this can spend some time. As well as with that I indicate a number of hrs.
Note that you need to Download both archives, to receive a full back-up of your account!
As soon as your archive is readily available for download, this is exactly what the page will certainly appear like.
Although your personal photos are meant to be consisted of in the archive, you need to download your Facebook Photos independently. Not only is this treatment one more backup, it is additionally a whole lot faster and could offer you with more alternatives.
Restore Friends
As mentioned above, you won't be able to Restore or migrate all of your Data which includes your friends. You should by hand include friends to your brand-new account. However, it is not feasible export your Facebook friends to a 3rd party account and afterwards re-import them to a new Facebook account.
Nevertheless, you could import calls from third party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have call information of a lot of your friends on accounts beyond Facebook, you can take a tiny faster way. Go to your brand-new Facebook account and import contacts from any type of sustained 3rd party account (CSV files are additionally supported) via the Discover Friends web page.
While you can export your Facebook calls to Yahoo! Mail, it is not be feasible to re-import them to Facebook. As well as get in touches with imported from Facebook will definitely not be included in a Yahoo! CSV documents.
I composed a different short article on ways to back up your Facebook contacts. Keep in mind that only get in touch with information of friends that have actually accepted have their e-mail address included in details downloads can be imported into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Right here comes the huge letdown. There is no chance to publish or otherwise import your archive to Restore or move Data from your old Facebook account to your brand-new one. Whatever you wish to Restore, you have to do it (semi-) manually or utilize third party devices. Now, the archive merely functions as a personal back-up, absolutely nothing more.
So what are your alternatives? You can re-add your old friends as shown above, re-upload photos you downloaded from your old account, re-tag your friends in your photos, re-join teams you were a member of, re-add Facebook applications, manually re-do all your personal Settings, consisting of basic account and personal privacy Settings, e.g. protect your Facebook account, include trusted get in touches with, or conceal your individual Settings. I want I had good news, yet as I stated previously, you could not auto-merge 2 accounts or Restore Data, so you basically go back to square one.
What You Will Shed
You will certainly shed a whole lot! Your whole Timeline and Information Feed history will certainly be gone, consisting of messages or images you were labelled in, locations you checked out, all the Likes you provided or received, or groups you were a member of, all your account and also privacy Settings, and any other records you collected gradually. Your images and friends are actually all you can take with you, everything else has to be re-created manually.
Shut off or Close Your Old Facebook Account.
If you make a decision to deactivate or shut your old Facebook account, make certain to add your brand-new account as an admin to any kind of Groups or Pages you take care of. Otherwise you will lose accessibility to them.
Once you have dealt with admin duties, have actually downloaded all your Data, and also make sure you want to entirely eliminate your account, log right into the Facebook account you wish to close, and go to the Erase My Account page to kick off the process. We have actually previously discussed How you can Appropriately Shut Your Facebook Account.
Conclusion
Facebook allows you to Download an archive of your account. Nevertheless, there is no coordinating system in place to recover your Data, ought to the account obtain endangered. Facebook never ever planned to provide a recover attribute; rather they were lawfully forced to provide a means for users to download their Data. Consequently, customers are entrusted only half-baked services or unpleasant workarounds, ought to they desire to merge or relocate accounts.
Just what would bother you most if you needed to move to a new Facebook account?