How to Merge Two Facebook Accounts
While Facebook does not offer a method to auto-merge all your friends, pictures, status updates, check-ins or other details, you could by hand merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little preparation and perseverance. Sadly, you will not have the ability to move or re-create all of your Data.
How To Merge Two Facebook Accounts
Mass Download Data
As a very first step I advise to bulk download your Facebook Data, a procedure I have explained formerly. This treatment could take some time and also the archive will function as a minimal back-up, must you determine to shut off or delete your account. It won't be of great help in recovering any kind of Data, though.
Briefly, most likely to your General Account Settings as well as click Download a copy of your Facebook Data near the bottom.
This will lead you to a page where you can download your info and also obtain a duplicate of exactly what you have shared on Facebook.
Now do begin your archive on this initial web page. Additionally find where it says You could additionally Download an increased archive ... and also click the corresponding link. This will certainly direct you to the Expanded Archive Download page where you will be asked to re-enter your password.
Now here is where you will certainly require persistence. Depending upon just how big your primary as well as your broadened archive are and how many various other archives are in the line up, this can spend some time. As well as keeping that I indicate a couple of hours.
Note that you must Download both archives, to receive a complete back-up of your account!
As soon as your archive is offered for download, this is what the web page will certainly look like.
Although your own images are supposed to be included in the archive, you need to download your Facebook Photos separately. Not just is this procedure another back-up, it is likewise a whole lot faster and could supply you with even more alternatives.
Restore Friends
As mentioned above, you won't have the ability to Restore or migrate every one of your Data and that includes your friends. You have to by hand include friends to your new account. Sadly, it is not feasible export your Facebook friends to a third party account and afterwards re-import them to a brand-new Facebook account.
Nevertheless, you could import contacts from third party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have contact details of most of your friends on accounts beyond Facebook, you could take a little faster way. Go to your new Facebook account and also import calls from any type of sustained 3rd party account (CSV files are also supported) by means of the Locate 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 get in touches with imported from Facebook will certainly not be included in a Yahoo! CSV documents.
I composed a different write-up on ways to back up your Facebook get in touches with. Note that only call information of friends who have actually agreed to have their e-mail address included in details downloads can be imported into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Below comes the huge disappointment. There is no chance to publish or otherwise import your archive to Restore or move Data from your old Facebook account to your new one. Whatever you want to Restore, you have to do it (semi-) by hand or make use of 3rd party devices. Today, the archive merely serves as a personal back-up, nothing more.
So what are your alternatives? You can re-add your old friends as revealed over, re-upload photos you downloaded and install from your old account, re-tag your friends in your pictures, re-join teams you belonged to, re-add Facebook applications, manually re-do all your individual Settings, including general account and also privacy Settings, e.g. protect your Facebook account, include trusted get in touches with, or conceal your individual Settings. I desire I had excellent information, but as I claimed before, you can not auto-merge two accounts or Restore Data, so you basically go back to square one.
What You Will certainly Shed
You will shed a great deal! Your entire Timeline and News Feed history will certainly be gone, consisting of articles or images you were labelled in, locations you checked out, all the Likes you issued or got, or groups you were a member of, all your account and personal privacy Settings, and also other records you accumulated gradually. Your photos and also friends are actually all you can take with you, everything else needs to be re-created manually.
Deactivate or Shut Your Old Facebook Account.
If you decide to shut down or shut your old Facebook account, be sure to include your new account as an admin to any type of Teams or Pages you handle. Otherwise you will shed accessibility to them.
As soon as you have actually dealt with admin duties, have downloaded and install all your Data, and are sure you want to entirely eliminate your account, log right into the Facebook account you intend to shut, and see the Delete My Account page to begin the procedure. We have actually previously discussed How you can Effectively Shut Your Facebook Account.
Final thought
Facebook enables you to Download an archive of your account. However, there is no matching system in place to recover your Data, must the account obtain endangered. Facebook never ever meant to supply a restore feature; instead they were legally forced to provide a means for users to download their Data. Consequently, users are entrusted only half-baked remedies or uncomfortable workarounds, should they want to merge or relocate accounts.
Exactly what would bother you most if you had to relocate to a brand-new Facebook account?