While Facebook does not offer 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 prep work as well as persistence. However, you won't be able to move or re-create every one of your Data.
How To Merge Two Facebook Accounts Into One
Mass Download Data
As a primary step I suggest to mass download your Facebook Data, a procedure I have actually explained formerly. This treatment can take a while as well as the archive will serve as a marginal backup, need to you choose to shut down or delete your account. It will not be of wonderful aid in bring back any Data, however.
Briefly, go to your General Account Settings and click Download a copy of your Facebook Data at the bottom.
This will lead you to a page where you could download your information and obtain a copy of exactly what you have shared on Facebook.
Currently do begin your archive on this initial page. On top of that discover where it says You can also Download an increased archive ... as well as click the corresponding web link. This will assist you to the Expanded Archive Download page where you will certainly be asked to re-enter your password.
Now right here is where you will certainly need perseverance. Depending on exactly how big your primary and your increased archive are and the amount of other archives remain in the line, this can take some time. And also with that I suggest a couple of hrs.
Note that you must Download both archives, to get a full backup of your account!
When your archive is available for download, this is just what the web page will look like.
Although your personal images are supposed to be consisted of in the archive, you need to download your Facebook Photos separately. Not just is this treatment an additional backup, it is also a whole lot faster and might supply you with even more alternatives.
Restore Friends
As discussed over, you will not be able to Restore or move all of your Data and that includes your friends. You have to by hand include friends to your new account. Unfortunately, it is not feasible export your Facebook friends to a third party account and after that re-import them to a brand-new Facebook account.
Nevertheless, you could import calls from 3rd party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have get in touch with details of a lot of your friends on accounts beyond Facebook, you can take a tiny shortcut. Go to your brand-new Facebook account and also import calls from any type of sustained 3rd party account (CSV documents are likewise supported) using the Discover Friends page.
While you could export your Facebook get in touches with to Yahoo! Mail, it is not be feasible to re-import them to Facebook. And also contacts imported from Facebook will definitely not be consisted of in a Yahoo! CSV data.
I wrote a different post on how you can back up your Facebook get in touches with. Note that only get in touch with information of friends who have actually agreed to have their e-mail address consisted of in info downloads can be imported into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Here comes the large disappointment. There is no way to publish or otherwise import your archive to Restore or transfer Data from your old Facebook account to your brand-new one. Whatever you want to Restore, you need to do it (semi-) manually or make use of third party tools. Right now, the archive just acts as an individual backup, nothing even more.
So exactly what are your alternatives? You could re-add your old friends as shown over, 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, including general account as well as privacy Settings, e.g. safeguard your Facebook account, add trusted get in touches with, or hide your individual Settings. I wish I had great information, but as I claimed before, you can not auto-merge 2 accounts or Restore Data, so you essentially go back to square one.
What You Will certainly Lose
You will lose a whole lot! Your whole Timeline as well as Information Feed history will be gone, consisting of articles or images you were tagged in, locations you checked into, all the Sorts you released or received, or groups you belonged to, all your account and personal privacy Settings, as well as other documents you gathered over time. Your pictures and also friends are really all you could take with you, whatever else needs to be re-created manually.
Shut off or Shut Your Old Facebook Account.
If you make a decision to deactivate or close your old Facebook account, make sure to include your brand-new account as an admin to any kind of Groups or Pages you handle. Otherwise you will certainly lose accessibility to them.
When you have dealt with admin functions, have actually downloaded and install all your Data, and also make sure you intend to entirely eliminate your account, log into the Facebook account you intend to close, as well as visit the Remove My Account page to begin the procedure. We have actually previously discussed Ways to Properly Close Your Facebook Account.
Verdict
Facebook allows you to Download an archive of your account. Nevertheless, there is no matching system in position to recover your Data, must the account get jeopardized. Facebook never intended to offer a recover attribute; instead they were legitimately forced to use a means for individuals to download their Data. Because of this, users are entrusted to nothing but half-baked services or awkward workarounds, ought to they desire to merge or relocate accounts.
Exactly what would trouble you most if you needed to transfer to a new Facebook account?