While Facebook does not provide a method 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 preparation and also patience. However, you will not be able to move or re-create all of your Data.
How to Combine Facebook Accounts
Mass Download Data
As an initial step I suggest to mass download your Facebook Data, a treatment I have actually explained formerly. This procedure can take a while and also the archive will certainly work as a very little backup, must you choose to deactivate or remove your account. It won't be of excellent assistance in recovering any Data, however.
Quickly, most likely to your General Account Settings and click Download a copy of your Facebook Data near the bottom.
This will lead you to a page where you could download your details and also get a duplicate of what you have actually shared on Facebook.
Currently do begin your archive on this very first page. On top of that discover where it says You could likewise Download a broadened archive ... and 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.
Currently below is where you will need patience. Relying on how big your primary and also your increased archive are as well as the amount of various other archives remain in the queue, this could spend some time. And also keeping that I indicate a few hrs.
Keep in mind that you should Download both archives, to receive a full backup of your account!
Once your archive is readily available for download, this is just what the page will certainly appear like.
Although your own images are supposed to be consisted of in the archive, you must download your Facebook Photos individually. Not only is this procedure an additional back-up, it is additionally a great deal faster as well as may supply you with even more choices.
Restore Friends
As pointed out above, you won't be able to Restore or migrate all your Data and that includes your friends. You need to by hand include friends to your brand-new account. However, it is not feasible export your Facebook friends to a 3rd party account and afterwards 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 a lot of your friends on accounts beyond Facebook, you can take a little shortcut. Most likely to your new Facebook account and also import get in touches with from any sustained 3rd party account (CSV data are additionally supported) using the Locate Friends web 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 get in touches with imported from Facebook will certainly not be included in a Yahoo! CSV documents.
I wrote a separate post on how you can support your Facebook calls. Note that just call info of friends that have accepted have their email address consisted of in information downloads can be imported right into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Here comes the large disappointment. There is no other way to post 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 need to do it (semi-) by hand or make use of 3rd party tools. Today, the archive simply acts as a personal backup, absolutely nothing more.
So what are your choices? You could re-add your old friends as revealed above, re-upload photos you downloaded from your old account, re-tag your friends in your images, re-join groups you were a member of, re-add Facebook apps, manually re-do all your individual Settings, consisting of general account as well as privacy Settings, e.g. protect your Facebook account, include trusted contacts, or conceal your individual Settings. I desire I had good news, but as I said in the past, you can not auto-merge two accounts or Restore Data, so you essentially go back to square one.
What You Will certainly Shed
You will certainly lose a great deal! Your whole Timeline and also News Feed history will certainly be gone, including blog posts or pictures you were identified in, places you looked into, all the Sorts you issued or got, or teams you belonged to, all your account and personal privacy Settings, and also any other records you collected with time. Your images as well as friends are truly all you could take with you, whatever else needs to be re-created manually.
Shut down or Close Your Old Facebook Account.
If you determine to deactivate or close your old Facebook account, make sure to include your brand-new account as an admin to any type of Teams or Pages you manage. Otherwise you will lose access to them.
When you have actually looked after admin functions, have downloaded all your Data, and are sure you intend to completely eliminate your account, log right into the Facebook account you wish to shut, as well as check out the Erase My Account page to start the process. We have previously explained How you can Appropriately Close Your Facebook Account.
Conclusion
Facebook permits you to Download an archive of your account. Nevertheless, there is no coordinating system in place to recover your Data, must the account get compromised. Facebook never ever meant to give a restore attribute; instead they were legally compelled to use a way for individuals to download their Data. Because of this, customers are entrusted to just half-baked services or awkward workarounds, need to they want to merge or relocate accounts.
Just what would certainly trouble you most if you needed to relocate to a new Facebook account?