Merge Facebook Profiles
While Facebook does not use a way to auto-merge all your friends, photos, condition updates, check-ins or other info, you could manually merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little prep work and also patience. Sadly, you will not have the ability to move or re-create all your Data.
Merge Facebook Profiles
Bulk Download Data
As a first step I advise to bulk download your Facebook Data, a treatment I have explained formerly. This procedure can take some time and the archive will certainly function as a minimal back-up, should you make a decision to shut down or erase your account. It will not be of wonderful aid in restoring any type 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 certainly lead you to a page where you could download your info and also get a copy of exactly what you have actually shared on Facebook.
Currently do begin your archive on this first page. Furthermore discover where it states You can also Download a broadened archive ... as well as click the particular link. This will certainly assist you to the Expanded Archive Download web page where you will be asked to re-enter your password.
Now here is where you will need persistence. Depending on just how large your primary and your broadened archive are and also the number of other archives are in the queue, this can spend some time. And also with that I imply a couple of hrs.
Note that you must Download both archives, to obtain a full back-up of your account!
Once your archive is offered for download, this is exactly what the web page will appear like.
Although your very own pictures are expected to be included in the archive, you should download your Facebook Photos individually. Not only is this procedure an additional backup, it is also a great deal faster and also might offer you with more alternatives.
Restore Friends
As pointed out above, you won't be able to Restore or migrate every one of your Data and that includes your friends. You should manually add friends to your brand-new account. Unfortunately, it is not possible export your Facebook friends to a 3rd party account and after that re-import them to a brand-new Facebook account.
However, you could import contacts from third 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 tiny faster way. Go to your new Facebook account and also import contacts from any type of sustained third party account (CSV data are additionally sustained) via the Locate Friends page.
While you could export your Facebook calls to Yahoo! Mail, it is not be feasible to re-import them to Facebook. And contacts imported from Facebook will absolutely not be included in a Yahoo! CSV file.
I composed a separate article on the best ways to back up your Facebook get in touches with. Note that only contact information of friends who have actually consented to have their email address included in info downloads can be imported right into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Right here comes the big letdown. There is no way to post 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 need to do it (semi-) by hand or use third party tools. Now, the archive simply functions as a personal back-up, nothing even more.
So what are your alternatives? You could 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 teams you were a member of, re-add Facebook apps, by hand re-do all your individual Settings, including basic account and also privacy Settings, e.g. secure your Facebook account, include relied on contacts, or hide your personal Settings. I wish I had great news, but as I claimed in the past, you can not auto-merge two accounts or Restore Data, so you essentially start from scratch.
What You Will certainly Shed
You will shed a great deal! Your whole Timeline as well as News Feed background will be gone, including posts or pictures you were labelled in, areas you checked out, all the Likes you issued or got, or groups you belonged to, all your account and personal privacy Settings, as well as other documents you accumulated in time. Your photos and friends are truly all you can take with you, every little thing else has to be re-created manually.
Shut off or Shut Your Old Facebook Account.
If you determine to deactivate or close your old Facebook account, be sure to add your brand-new account as an admin to any type of Groups or Pages you handle. Or else you will shed access to them.
When you have looked after admin functions, have downloaded and install all your Data, and make certain you wish to entirely eliminate your account, log right into the Facebook account you want to close, as well as visit the Erase My Account web page to kick off the process. We have previously discussed How To Appropriately Close Your Facebook Account.
Conclusion
Facebook allows you to Download an archive of your account. However, there is no coordinating system in place to recover your Data, should the account get compromised. Facebook never intended to provide a recover feature; instead they were lawfully required to provide a method for users to download their Data. As a result, users are entrusted to nothing but half-baked services or awkward workarounds, ought to they desire to merge or move accounts.
Exactly what would certainly bother you most if you needed to relocate to a new Facebook account?