How to Combine Facebook Accounts
While Facebook does not offer a means to auto-merge all your friends, photos, standing updates, check-ins or other information, you can manually merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little prep work and perseverance. However, you won't have the ability to move or re-create all your Data.
How to Combine Facebook Accounts
Mass Download Data
As a primary step I recommend to mass download your Facebook Data, a treatment I have actually defined formerly. This treatment can take a while and also the archive will act as a minimal back-up, ought to you choose to shut off or erase your account. It won't be of terrific aid in restoring any type of Data, though.
Briefly, 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 info and also obtain a copy of just what you have shared on Facebook.
Currently do begin your archive on this very first page. In addition locate where it states You could likewise Download a broadened archive ... as well as click the corresponding web link. This will direct you to the Expanded Archive Download page where you will be asked to re-enter your password.
Currently here is where you will need patience. Relying on how large your major and also your expanded archive are and also the number of various other archives are in the line, this can take some time. And with that said I imply a few hrs.
Keep in mind that you need to Download both archives, to get a full backup of your account!
When your archive is available for download, this is exactly what the web page will certainly appear like.
Although your personal photos are expected to be included in the archive, you must download your Facebook Photos independently. Not only is this procedure another back-up, it is also a lot faster and might supply you with even more alternatives.
Restore Friends
As mentioned above, you will not be able to Restore or migrate all your Data and that includes your friends. You need to by hand add friends to your brand-new account. However, it is not feasible export your Facebook friends to a 3rd party account then re-import them to a new Facebook account.
However, you could import get in touches with from third party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have call information of most of your friends on accounts outside of Facebook, you could take a tiny shortcut. Most likely to your new Facebook account as well as import get in touches with from any kind of supported third party account (CSV documents are additionally supported) using the Discover Friends page.
While you could export your Facebook calls to Yahoo! Mail, it is not be feasible to re-import them to Facebook. And also calls imported from Facebook will certainly not be included in a Yahoo! CSV data.
I wrote a separate post on ways to support your Facebook contacts. Keep in mind that only call details of friends who have actually agreed to have their email address consisted of in information downloads can be imported into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Below comes the large letdown. There is no chance to publish or otherwise import your archive to Restore or transfer Data from your old Facebook account to your new one. Whatever you intend to Restore, you have to do it (semi-) by hand or make use of 3rd party devices. Now, the archive just works as an individual backup, nothing even more.
So exactly what are your alternatives? You could re-add your old friends as revealed over, re-upload images 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 basic account as well as personal privacy Settings, e.g. secure your Facebook account, include trusted get in touches with, or hide your personal Settings. I wish I had excellent news, but as I stated in the past, you could not auto-merge two accounts or Restore Data, so you basically start from scratch.
What You Will certainly Shed
You will lose a whole lot! Your entire Timeline and Information Feed history will be gone, consisting of articles or pictures you were tagged in, locations you checked into, all the Likes you issued or obtained, or groups you were a member of, all your account as well as privacy Settings, and any other documents you accumulated with time. Your photos and also friends are actually all you can take with you, everything else has to be re-created by hand.
Deactivate or Shut Your Old Facebook Account.
If you make a decision to shut down or shut your old Facebook account, make sure to add your new account as an admin to any kind of Teams or Pages you handle. Or else you will certainly lose accessibility to them.
When you have actually taken care of admin functions, have downloaded and install all your Data, as well as make sure you want to entirely remove your account, log into the Facebook account you intend to close, as well as check out the Erase My Account web page to kick off the procedure. We have previously discussed The best ways to Properly Shut Your Facebook Account.
Final thought
Facebook allows you to Download an archive of your account. Nevertheless, there is no matching system in position to restore your Data, ought to the account get endangered. Facebook never ever planned to give a restore attribute; instead they were legally compelled to use a way for users to download their Data. Because of this, individuals are left with only half-baked services or awkward workarounds, should they want to merge or move accounts.
What would certainly trouble you most if you had to transfer to a new Facebook account?