Merge Facebook Accounts
While Facebook does not use a method to auto-merge all your friends, images, standing updates, check-ins or various other details, you could manually merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little prep work as well as persistence. Unfortunately, you won't have the ability to migrate or re-create all of your Data.
Merge Facebook Accounts
Mass Download Data
As a primary step I recommend to mass download your Facebook Data, a procedure I have actually explained formerly. This procedure could take some time and the archive will act as a minimal backup, need to you decide to shut down or remove your account. It will not be of terrific assistance in restoring any kind of Data, though.
Briefly, most likely to your General Account Settings and click Download a copy of your Facebook Data near the bottom.
This will lead you to a page where you could download your information and obtain a duplicate of exactly what you have actually shared on Facebook.
Now do begin your archive on this initial page. On top of that find where it says You could also Download an expanded archive ... as well as click the particular link. This will certainly assist you to the Expanded Archive Download page where you will be asked to re-enter your password.
Currently right here is where you will certainly require patience. Relying on just how huge your major as well as your increased archive are and how many other archives are in the line up, this can take a while. And keeping that I mean a few hours.
Keep in mind that you need to Download both archives, to get a full back-up of your account!
Once your archive is readily available for download, this is what the page will appear like.
Although your personal pictures are expected to be included in the archive, you need to download your Facebook Photos individually. Not only is this procedure one more backup, it is additionally a great deal faster and could offer you with even more choices.
Restore Friends
As mentioned above, you will not be able to Restore or move all of your Data and that includes your friends. You need to by hand include friends to your brand-new account. However, it is not possible export your Facebook friends to a 3rd party account and then re-import them to a new Facebook account.
Nonetheless, you could import get in touches with from third party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have get in touch with details of the majority of your friends on accounts outside of Facebook, you can take a small faster way. Most likely to your new Facebook account as well as import calls from any supported third party account (CSV data are also sustained) by means of the Locate Friends web page.
While you can export your Facebook get in touches with to Yahoo! Mail, it is not be feasible to re-import them to Facebook. As well as calls imported from Facebook will definitely not be consisted of in a Yahoo! CSV file.
I wrote a separate short article on ways to support your Facebook calls. Note that only call info of friends that have consented to have their email address consisted of in details downloads can be imported right into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Below comes the huge disappointment. There is no way to upload or otherwise import your archive to Restore or transfer Data from your old Facebook account to your 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 back-up, absolutely nothing more.
So exactly what are your options? You could re-add your old friends as shown over, re-upload photos you downloaded and install from your old account, re-tag your friends in your pictures, re-join teams you were a member of, re-add Facebook applications, by hand re-do all your personal Settings, including basic account and also personal privacy Settings, e.g. secure your Facebook account, add trusted calls, or hide your individual Settings. I want I had great information, however as I said before, you can not auto-merge 2 accounts or Restore Data, so you basically go back to square one.
What You Will Lose
You will lose a great deal! Your whole Timeline and News Feed background will be gone, consisting of blog posts or photos you were identified in, locations you looked into, all the Sorts you issued or received, or teams you were a member of, all your account and privacy Settings, and other documents you accumulated gradually. Your images and friends are truly all you could take with you, every little thing else has to be re-created manually.
Shut off or Shut Your Old Facebook Account.
If you choose to deactivate or shut your old Facebook account, be sure to add your new account as an admin to any kind of Teams or Pages you take care of. Or else you will lose access to them.
When you have taken care of admin functions, have actually downloaded all your Data, as well as make sure you wish to entirely remove your account, log right into the Facebook account you want to shut, and also see the Delete My Account web page to start the process. We have previously explained The best ways to Appropriately Shut Your Facebook Account.
Conclusion
Facebook enables you to Download an archive of your account. Nevertheless, there is no matching system in place to recover your Data, ought to the account obtain compromised. Facebook never ever intended to offer a bring back feature; rather they were legitimately compelled to supply a means for individuals to download their Data. Because of this, users are entrusted just half-baked solutions or uncomfortable workarounds, should they want to merge or relocate accounts.
What would certainly trouble you most if you had to move to a brand-new Facebook account?