How to Merge Two Facebook Account
While Facebook does not use a way to auto-merge all your friends, images, standing updates, check-ins or other info, you could manually merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little prep work and persistence. Regrettably, you will not have the ability to migrate or re-create all of your Data.
How To Merge Two Facebook Account
Bulk Download Data
As a first step I recommend to bulk download your Facebook Data, a procedure I have described previously. This procedure could spend some time and the archive will function as a very little back-up, must you decide to shut down or erase your account. It won't be of wonderful help in restoring any kind of Data, though.
Quickly, most likely to your General Account Settings as well as click Download a copy of your Facebook Data at the bottom.
This will lead you to a web page where you could download your details and get a copy of exactly what you have shared on Facebook.
Now do begin your archive on this initial web page. In addition locate where it claims You can also Download an increased archive ... as well as click the corresponding web link. This will lead you to the Expanded Archive Download page where you will certainly be asked to re-enter your password.
Currently here is where you will certainly require patience. Depending on how large your primary as well as your broadened archive are and how many various other archives are in the line, this could take a while. And also with that said I suggest a number of hours.
Note that you should Download both archives, to receive a full back-up of your account!
As soon as your archive is readily available for download, this is just what the page will certainly appear like.
Although your own pictures are supposed to be consisted of in the archive, you should download your Facebook Photos individually. Not just is this procedure another back-up, it is additionally a whole lot faster and also could offer you with even more options.
Restore Friends
As discussed above, you won't have the ability to Restore or move all of your Data and that includes your friends. You need to manually add friends to your brand-new account. Sadly, it is not possible export your Facebook friends to a third party account and then re-import them to a new Facebook account.
However, you can import calls from third party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have get in touch with details of most of your friends on accounts outside of Facebook, you can take a little faster way. Most likely to your new Facebook account and also import calls from any type of sustained third party account (CSV documents are also supported) by means of the Discover Friends web page.
While you can export your Facebook calls to Yahoo! Mail, it is not be possible to re-import them to Facebook. And calls imported from Facebook will absolutely not be consisted of in a Yahoo! CSV data.
I composed a different short article on ways to back up your Facebook calls. Note that only get in touch with details of friends that have consented to have their e-mail address consisted of in details downloads can be imported right into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Below comes the big disappointment. 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 intend to Restore, you need to do it (semi-) by hand or use third party tools. Today, the archive merely functions as an individual back-up, absolutely nothing even more.
So just what are your alternatives? You can re-add your old friends as shown above, re-upload pictures you downloaded and install from your old account, re-tag your friends in your images, re-join teams you belonged to, re-add Facebook applications, by hand re-do all your individual Settings, consisting of general account and privacy Settings, e.g. protect your Facebook account, add trusted contacts, or hide your individual Settings. I want I had great information, yet as I claimed in the past, you can not auto-merge two accounts or Restore Data, so you essentially start from scratch.
What You Will certainly Lose
You will certainly lose a great deal! Your whole Timeline and News Feed background will be gone, consisting of posts or pictures you were tagged in, areas you looked into, all the Likes you released or obtained, or groups you belonged to, all your account as well as personal privacy Settings, as well as other documents you built up gradually. Your pictures and friends are really all you could take with you, everything else has to be re-created manually.
Shut down or Shut Your Old Facebook Account.
If you decide to deactivate or close your old Facebook account, be sure to add your brand-new account as an admin to any type of Groups or Pages you manage. Or else you will shed accessibility to them.
Once you have looked after admin roles, have actually downloaded all your Data, as well as are sure you intend to completely eliminate your account, log into the Facebook account you want to close, and also see the Erase My Account page to start the process. We have formerly described Ways to Correctly Close Your Facebook Account.
Conclusion
Facebook permits you to Download an archive of your account. Nevertheless, there is no matching system in place to restore your Data, should the account get endangered. Facebook never ever meant to supply a restore feature; instead they were lawfully forced to provide a method for users to download their Data. Consequently, users are left with just half-baked solutions or awkward workarounds, ought to they want to merge or relocate accounts.
Exactly what would bother you most if you needed to move to a new Facebook account?