How to Merge My Facebook Accounts
While Facebook does not offer a way to auto-merge all your friends, pictures, standing updates, check-ins or other info, you can manually merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little preparation and also patience. However, you won't have the ability to move or re-create all your Data.
How To Merge My Facebook Accounts
Mass Download Data
As a first step I suggest to bulk download your Facebook Data, a treatment I have defined previously. This procedure can take a while and the archive will work as a marginal backup, should you decide to shut off or erase your account. It will not be of wonderful assistance in restoring any kind of Data, though.
Briefly, most likely to your General Account Settings and also click Download a copy of your Facebook Data at the bottom.
This will lead you to a page where you can download your information and get a copy of exactly what you have shared on Facebook.
Now do begin your archive on this initial web page. Additionally locate where it states You could additionally Download a broadened archive ... as well as click the corresponding link. This will direct you to the Expanded Archive Download web page where you will be asked to re-enter your password.
Currently right here is where you will require perseverance. Relying on how huge your primary and your increased archive are and the number of various other archives remain in the queue, this can take a while. And with that said I mean a number of hours.
Note that you must Download both archives, to get a full backup of your account!
When your archive is available for download, this is what the web page will certainly look like.
Although your own pictures are expected to be included in the archive, you need to download your Facebook Photos individually. Not just is this procedure another backup, it is also a whole lot faster as well as might give you with even more options.
Restore Friends
As stated above, you won't be able to Restore or move all of your Data which includes your friends. You should by hand add friends to your brand-new account. However, it is not feasible export your Facebook friends to a 3rd party account and then re-import them to a brand-new Facebook account.
Nonetheless, you can import calls from third party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have contact details of a lot of your friends on accounts outside of Facebook, you could take a small faster way. Go to your brand-new Facebook account and also import contacts from any supported 3rd party account (CSV data are also supported) using the Discover Friends page.
While you could 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 absolutely not be included in a Yahoo! CSV documents.
I wrote a different article on the best ways to support your Facebook get in touches with. Note that just get in touch with information of friends that have agreed to have their e-mail address included in info downloads can be imported right into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Below comes the big disappointment. There is no way to upload 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-) by hand or utilize 3rd party devices. Now, the archive just serves as an individual backup, nothing more.
So exactly what are your alternatives? You can re-add your old friends as revealed above, re-upload pictures you downloaded and install from your old account, re-tag your friends in your images, re-join groups you were a member of, re-add Facebook apps, by hand re-do all your individual Settings, including general account and also personal privacy Settings, e.g. secure your Facebook account, add trusted calls, or conceal your individual Settings. I want I had excellent news, however as I said previously, you could not auto-merge 2 accounts or Restore Data, so you basically go back to square one.
What You Will certainly Shed
You will certainly shed a lot! Your entire Timeline and also News Feed background will certainly be gone, consisting of blog posts or pictures you were tagged in, areas you checked out, all the Likes you released or received, or teams you were a member of, all your account as well as privacy Settings, and also other records you built up in time. Your pictures as well as friends are actually all you could take with you, whatever else has to be re-created by hand.
Shut down or Shut Your Old Facebook Account.
If you determine to deactivate or shut your old Facebook account, make certain to include your brand-new account as an admin to any Teams or Pages you take care of. Otherwise you will certainly lose access to them.
When you have actually cared for admin functions, have downloaded all your Data, and are sure you wish to completely remove your account, log into the Facebook account you intend to shut, and also check out the Delete My Account page to begin the process. We have formerly explained Ways to Effectively Shut Your Facebook Account.
Conclusion
Facebook enables you to Download an archive of your account. Nevertheless, there is no coordinating system in place to restore your Data, must the account get endangered. Facebook never planned to offer a recover function; instead they were lawfully forced to supply a method for individuals to download their Data. As a result, customers are entrusted to nothing but half-baked remedies or unpleasant workarounds, need to they desire to merge or move accounts.
Exactly what would certainly trouble you most if you had to transfer to a brand-new Facebook account?