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 preparation as well as patience. Regrettably, you will not have the ability to migrate or re-create all your Data.
How To Merge Facebook Accounts
Mass Download Data
As an initial step I suggest to mass download your Facebook Data, a treatment I have actually described previously. This procedure could take some time as well as the archive will work as a marginal back-up, need to you determine to shut down or erase your account. It won't be of terrific help in restoring any kind of Data, though.
Briefly, go to your General Account Settings and also click Download a copy of your Facebook Data at the bottom.
This will lead you to a page where you can download your info and obtain a copy of what you have actually shared on Facebook.
Now do start your archive on this first web page. In addition discover where it says You can additionally Download a broadened archive ... and click the corresponding web link. This will assist you to the Expanded Archive Download page where you will be asked to re-enter your password.
Now right here is where you will require patience. Relying on just how big your main and also your broadened archive are as well as the number of other archives are in the queue, this could spend some time. And also with that said I mean a number of hours.
Note that you must Download both archives, to obtain a complete backup of your account!
As soon as your archive is offered for download, this is exactly what the page will look like.
Although your own photos are meant to be included in the archive, you need to download your Facebook Photos separately. Not only is this procedure one more back-up, it is additionally a whole lot faster and could provide you with even more options.
Restore Friends
As mentioned above, you will not be able to Restore or migrate all of your Data which includes your friends. You have to by hand include friends to your new account. Sadly, it is not possible export your Facebook friends to a third party account and then re-import them to a 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 most of your friends on accounts outside of Facebook, you can take a small faster way. Go to your brand-new Facebook account and also import contacts from any type of supported third party account (CSV files are additionally sustained) through the Find Friends page.
While you can export your Facebook calls to Yahoo! Mail, it is not be feasible to re-import them to Facebook. And calls imported from Facebook will absolutely not be included in a Yahoo! CSV file.
I composed a separate article on the best ways to support your Facebook calls. Note that just contact information of friends that have accepted have their e-mail address included in info downloads can be imported into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Here comes the huge letdown. There is no other way to upload or otherwise import your archive to Restore or move Data from your old Facebook account to your brand-new one. Whatever you wish to Restore, you have to do it (semi-) manually or make use of third party tools. Today, the archive simply functions as a personal back-up, nothing more.
So just what are your options? You can re-add your old friends as shown above, re-upload photos you downloaded and install from your old account, re-tag your friends in your pictures, re-join groups you were a member of, re-add Facebook apps, by hand re-do all your personal Settings, including basic account and also personal privacy Settings, e.g. safeguard your Facebook account, include trusted calls, or hide your personal Settings. I wish I had great news, however as I stated previously, you could not auto-merge 2 accounts or Restore Data, so you basically start from scratch.
What You Will Lose
You will certainly lose a lot! Your whole Timeline and also News Feed background will be gone, consisting of articles or photos you were identified in, areas you checked into, all the Sorts you provided or received, or groups you were a member of, all your account and also personal privacy Settings, as well as other records you gathered with time. Your images and friends are really all you can take with you, everything else has to be re-created by hand.
Deactivate or Shut Your Old Facebook Account.
If you decide to deactivate or shut your old Facebook account, make sure to add your brand-new account as an admin to any Teams or Pages you handle. Or else you will certainly lose accessibility to them.
When you have cared for admin functions, have actually downloaded and install all your Data, as well as are sure you wish to completely eliminate your account, log right into the Facebook account you intend to close, and see the Erase My Account web page to begin the procedure. We have actually formerly discussed The best ways to Appropriately Shut Your Facebook Account.
Verdict
Facebook permits 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 endangered. Facebook never meant to give a bring back function; rather they were legitimately forced to use a method for customers to download their Data. Consequently, customers are entrusted only half-baked solutions or unpleasant workarounds, must they want to merge or relocate accounts.
Just what would certainly trouble you most if you had to relocate to a brand-new Facebook account?