While Facebook does not provide a means to auto-merge all your friends, images, condition updates, check-ins or various other info, you could by hand merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little prep work as well as patience. Unfortunately, you won't be able to migrate or re-create all your Data.
Combine Two Facebook Accounts
Bulk Download Data
As a primary step I advise to mass download your Facebook Data, a procedure I have actually defined previously. This procedure can spend some time and the archive will certainly work as a marginal backup, ought to you determine to shut off or remove your account. It won't be of wonderful help in restoring any Data, however.
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 web page where you can download your details and also obtain a duplicate of what you have actually shared on Facebook.
Now do start your archive on this first page. On top of that discover where it says You could also Download a broadened archive ... and click the respective link. This will certainly guide you to the Expanded Archive Download web page where you will be asked to re-enter your password.
Currently here is where you will certainly require persistence. Depending upon exactly how large your major and also your increased archive are as well as how many other archives remain in the line up, this can take some time. And with that said I imply a few hours.
Keep in mind that you have to Download both archives, to get a full back-up of your account!
Once your archive is offered for download, this is exactly what the web page will certainly appear like.
Although your very own photos are intended to be included in the archive, you need to download your Facebook Photos separately. Not just is this treatment an additional backup, it is additionally a lot faster and could supply you with even more options.
Restore Friends
As mentioned over, you won't have the ability to Restore or move all of your Data and that includes your friends. You should by hand add friends to your 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.
Nonetheless, you can import get in touches with 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 can take a small shortcut. Go to your new Facebook account and import contacts from any kind of supported third party account (CSV files are also sustained) using the Find Friends web page.
While you can export your Facebook contacts to Yahoo! Mail, it is not be possible to re-import them to Facebook. And also calls imported from Facebook will absolutely not be consisted of in a Yahoo! CSV file.
I composed a separate short article on the best ways to support your Facebook contacts. Keep in mind that just get in touch with details of friends that have actually agreed to have their e-mail address consisted of in information downloads can be imported into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Right here comes the big disappointment. There is no chance to publish or otherwise import your archive to Restore or move Data from your old Facebook account to your brand-new one. Whatever you intend to Restore, you have to do it (semi-) by hand or make use of 3rd party tools. Now, the archive merely acts as a personal back-up, absolutely nothing more.
So what are your options? You can re-add your old friends as shown 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 basic account as well as privacy Settings, e.g. protect your Facebook account, add relied on contacts, or hide your individual Settings. I want I had excellent news, yet as I said in the past, you can not auto-merge 2 accounts or Restore Data, so you essentially start from scratch.
What You Will Lose
You will certainly shed a whole lot! Your whole Timeline as well as Information Feed history will be gone, consisting of articles or pictures you were identified in, areas you explored, all the Likes you issued or received, or teams you were a member of, all your account and also personal privacy Settings, and any other documents you collected with time. Your pictures as well as friends are truly all you could take with you, everything else needs to be re-created manually.
Shut down or Shut Your Old Facebook Account.
If you make a decision to shut down or close your old Facebook account, make sure to add your new account as an admin to any kind of Groups or Pages you handle. Otherwise you will certainly lose accessibility to them.
As soon as you have actually looked after admin functions, have downloaded all your Data, and also make sure you intend to completely remove your account, log right into the Facebook account you want to shut, and also check out the Remove My Account web page to kick off the procedure. We have actually previously described Ways to Correctly Shut Your Facebook Account.
Final thought
Facebook permits you to Download an archive of your account. Nevertheless, there is no coordinating system in place to restore your Data, ought to the account obtain jeopardized. Facebook never intended to offer a restore attribute; instead they were legitimately forced to offer a way for users to download their Data. Consequently, customers are entrusted to just half-baked options or unpleasant workarounds, should they want to merge or move accounts.
Exactly what would bother you most if you needed to relocate to a new Facebook account?