While Facebook does not use a means to auto-merge all your friends, pictures, standing updates, check-ins or various other information, you can manually merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little preparation as well as perseverance. Sadly, you won't have the ability to move or re-create all of your Data.
How to Merge My Facebook Accounts
Mass Download Data
As a primary step I recommend to bulk download your Facebook Data, a procedure I have defined previously. This treatment could spend some time and also the archive will certainly function as a minimal backup, ought to you make a decision to shut off or delete your account. It will not be of fantastic help in recovering any Data, though.
Quickly, most likely to your General Account Settings as well as click Download a copy of your Facebook Data near the bottom.
This will certainly lead you to a page where you can download your details as well as get a copy of exactly what you have actually shared on Facebook.
Now do begin your archive on this very first web page. In addition find where it says You can likewise Download a broadened archive ... as well as click the respective link. This will guide you to the Expanded Archive Download web page where you will be asked to re-enter your password.
Currently below is where you will certainly require patience. Relying on just how huge your main and also your increased archive are and also the number of various other archives remain in the line up, this can take a while. As well as keeping that I mean a couple of hrs.
Note that you should Download both archives, to receive a complete backup of your account!
Once your archive is available for download, this is exactly what the page will certainly look like.
Although your personal pictures are supposed to be included in the archive, you must download your Facebook Photos independently. Not just is this treatment another backup, it is also a lot faster and may give you with more choices.
Restore Friends
As stated above, you won't have the ability 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. Regrettably, 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.
Nevertheless, you could import contacts from 3rd party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have call details of a lot of your friends on accounts beyond Facebook, you can take a tiny faster way. Go to your brand-new Facebook account and also import calls from any kind of sustained third party account (CSV data are likewise supported) by means of the Discover Friends page.
While you could export your Facebook get in touches with 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 data.
I created a different short article on ways to support your Facebook contacts. Keep in mind that only contact information of friends that have accepted have their e-mail address included in information downloads can be imported into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Here comes the big letdown. There is no way to publish 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-) by hand or make use of third party tools. Now, the archive merely acts as an individual back-up, absolutely nothing more.
So exactly what are your alternatives? You could re-add your old friends as revealed above, 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 general account and also personal privacy Settings, e.g. safeguard your Facebook account, add relied on get in touches with, or conceal your personal Settings. I desire I had excellent news, yet as I claimed previously, you could not auto-merge two accounts or Restore Data, so you essentially go back to square one.
What You Will Lose
You will certainly lose a great deal! Your whole Timeline as well as News Feed history will be gone, including posts or photos you were marked in, places you looked into, all the Likes you issued or obtained, or groups you were a member of, all your account and personal privacy Settings, and also any other documents you built up gradually. Your pictures and friends are actually all you could take with you, everything else needs to be re-created manually.
Shut off or Shut Your Old Facebook Account.
If you decide to shut down or shut your old Facebook account, make sure to add your new account as an admin to any type of Teams or Pages you take care of. Otherwise you will lose access to them.
As soon as you have cared for admin functions, have 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 shut, and visit the Erase My Account web page to kick off the procedure. We have actually formerly explained Ways to Effectively Close Your Facebook Account.
Verdict
Facebook allows you to Download an archive of your account. Nonetheless, there is no coordinating system in position to recover your Data, must the account get jeopardized. Facebook never ever intended to supply a recover feature; rather they were legitimately compelled to supply a way for users to download their Data. As a result, customers are left with just half-baked remedies or uncomfortable workarounds, ought to they prefer to merge or move accounts.
Exactly what would bother you most if you had to transfer to a brand-new Facebook account?