Combine Two Facebook Accounts
While Facebook does not provide a way to auto-merge all your friends, images, status updates, check-ins or various other information, you could by hand merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little prep work and also patience. However, you won't have the ability to migrate or re-create all of your Data.
Combine Two Facebook Accounts
Bulk Download Data
As a primary step I suggest to mass download your Facebook Data, a treatment I have actually described previously. This treatment can take some time and the archive will certainly serve as a marginal backup, ought to you choose to deactivate or remove your account. It won't be of wonderful assistance in bring back any Data, though.
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 can download your information and get a copy of just what you have shared on Facebook.
Currently do start your archive on this first page. In addition find where it states You can likewise Download a broadened archive ... and also click the corresponding web link. This will direct you to the Expanded Archive Download web page where you will be asked to re-enter your password.
Now below is where you will require patience. Depending upon exactly how large your primary as well as your increased archive are and how many various other archives are in the queue, this could take a while. And keeping that I suggest a couple of hours.
Note that you must Download both archives, to receive a complete backup of your account!
Once your archive is readily available for download, this is what the page will appear like.
Although your personal pictures are meant to be included in the archive, you must download your Facebook Photos independently. Not just is this treatment an additional backup, it is likewise a whole lot faster as well as could provide you with more alternatives.
Restore Friends
As mentioned over, you won't be able to Restore or move every one of your Data and that includes your friends. You should by hand include friends to your brand-new account. Sadly, it is not possible export your Facebook friends to a third party account then re-import them to a brand-new Facebook account.
However, you can import get in touches with from 3rd party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have call details of a lot of your friends on accounts outside of Facebook, you can take a small shortcut. Go to your brand-new Facebook account as well as import contacts from any type of supported 3rd party account (CSV files are additionally sustained) via the Locate Friends page.
While you can export your Facebook contacts to Yahoo! Mail, it is not be feasible to re-import them to Facebook. And also get in touches with imported from Facebook will definitely not be included in a Yahoo! CSV data.
I composed a separate write-up on the best ways to support your Facebook calls. Note that only call details of friends who have consented to have their e-mail address consisted of in info downloads can be imported into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Below comes the large letdown. There is no way to submit 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 utilize 3rd party devices. Now, the archive just works as a personal back-up, absolutely nothing more.
So exactly what are your alternatives? You could re-add your old friends as shown over, re-upload photos you downloaded 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 individual Settings, consisting of basic account as well as personal privacy Settings, e.g. protect your Facebook account, include relied on contacts, or conceal your personal Settings. I wish I had good information, but as I stated previously, you could not auto-merge two accounts or Restore Data, so you basically go back to square one.
What You Will Lose
You will lose a whole lot! Your whole Timeline and also News Feed history will be gone, consisting of messages or photos you were labelled in, locations you checked out, all the Sorts you issued or got, or groups you were a member of, all your account and personal privacy Settings, as well as other records you accumulated gradually. Your images as well as friends are actually all you can take with you, whatever else has to be re-created manually.
Shut off or Close Your Old Facebook Account.
If you decide to shut down or shut your old Facebook account, make certain to add your new account as an admin to any kind of Groups or Pages you take care of. Otherwise you will certainly lose access to them.
Once you have looked after admin duties, have actually downloaded and install all your Data, and also are sure you wish to completely eliminate your account, log into the Facebook account you wish to shut, as well as go to the Delete My Account page to start the process. We have actually previously discussed The best ways to Appropriately Shut Your Facebook Account.
Conclusion
Facebook permits you to Download an archive of your account. However, there is no coordinating system in position to restore your Data, must the account obtain endangered. Facebook never planned to give a recover attribute; rather they were lawfully required to supply a means for individuals to download their Data. Therefore, users are entrusted just half-baked remedies or unpleasant workarounds, ought to they want to merge or move accounts.
What would trouble you most if you had to transfer to a new Facebook account?