While Facebook does not use a means to auto-merge all your friends, images, standing updates, check-ins or other details, you could manually merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little preparation and patience. Unfortunately, you will not be able to migrate or re-create every one of your Data.
How to Merge Two Facebook Accounts
Bulk Download Data
As a primary step I recommend to bulk download your Facebook Data, a treatment I have explained formerly. This treatment could spend some time and also the archive will certainly function as a very little back-up, should you choose to shut down or delete your account. It will not be of excellent aid in bring back any type of Data, though.
Briefly, go to your General Account Settings and click Download a copy of your Facebook Data at the bottom.
This will certainly lead you to a web page where you can download your info and also obtain a copy of what you have shared on Facebook.
Currently do start your archive on this first page. Additionally locate where it says You can also Download a broadened archive ... and also click the corresponding link. This will guide you to the Expanded Archive Download page where you will be asked to re-enter your password.
Now here is where you will certainly need perseverance. Depending on how big your primary as well as your expanded archive are and also how many other archives remain in the line up, this could take some time. As well as keeping that I mean a couple of hours.
Keep in mind that you must Download both archives, to get a full back-up of your account!
As soon as your archive is offered for download, this is just what the web page will certainly look like.
Although your very own images are meant to be included in the archive, you must download your Facebook Photos independently. Not just is this treatment an additional backup, it is likewise a great deal faster and also could give you with more choices.
Restore Friends
As discussed above, you won't 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. Unfortunately, it is not feasible export your Facebook friends to a third party account and afterwards re-import them to a brand-new Facebook account.
Nonetheless, you can import get in touches with from 3rd party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have get in touch with information of a lot of your friends on accounts outside of Facebook, you can take a tiny shortcut. Most likely to your brand-new Facebook account and import contacts from any type of sustained 3rd party account (CSV documents are likewise sustained) using the Discover 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. And contacts imported from Facebook will certainly not be included in a Yahoo! CSV file.
I wrote a different short article on how to back up your Facebook get in touches with. Note that just contact info of friends who have actually consented to have their email address consisted of in details downloads can be imported into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Here comes the big letdown. There is no chance to publish or otherwise import your archive to Restore or transfer Data from your old Facebook account to your brand-new one. Whatever you wish to Restore, you have to do it (semi-) manually or use 3rd party devices. Now, the archive simply functions as a personal back-up, absolutely nothing even more.
So just what are your choices? You can re-add your old friends as revealed over, re-upload images you downloaded from your old account, re-tag your friends in your pictures, re-join teams you were a member of, re-add Facebook apps, by hand re-do all your individual Settings, including basic account as well as personal privacy Settings, e.g. safeguard your Facebook account, add trusted calls, or conceal your personal Settings. I wish I had good news, however as I claimed before, you can not auto-merge 2 accounts or Restore Data, so you essentially go back to square one.
What You Will Shed
You will lose a great deal! Your entire Timeline and also Information Feed background will be gone, consisting of blog posts or images you were labelled in, locations you checked out, all the Sorts you issued or received, or groups you were a member of, all your account and also privacy Settings, and any other records you gathered with time. Your images as well as friends are truly all you can take with you, whatever else needs to be re-created manually.
Shut off or Shut Your Old Facebook Account.
If you choose to shut off or shut your old Facebook account, make sure to include your new account as an admin to any kind of Groups or Pages you take care of. Otherwise you will certainly shed accessibility to them.
Once you have dealt with admin duties, have actually downloaded and install all your Data, and also make sure you wish to totally eliminate your account, log right into the Facebook account you wish to close, and go to the Erase My Account page to start the procedure. We have actually formerly discussed How you can Correctly Shut Your Facebook Account.
Verdict
Facebook allows you to Download an archive of your account. However, there is no coordinating system in position to recover your Data, ought to the account obtain endangered. Facebook never meant to give a recover feature; instead they were legitimately required to provide a method for individuals to download their Data. Consequently, individuals are left with nothing but half-baked remedies or uncomfortable workarounds, should they desire to merge or move accounts.
Just what would bother you most if you had to transfer to a new Facebook account?