While Facebook does not offer a way to auto-merge all your friends, photos, status updates, check-ins or other details, you can by hand merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little prep work as well as persistence. However, you will not be able to move or re-create all of your Data.
How Do You Merge Facebook Accounts
Bulk Download Data
As a primary step I suggest to mass download your Facebook Data, a procedure I have actually explained previously. This procedure can spend some time and also the archive will act as a minimal back-up, need to you decide to shut down or remove your account. It won't be of wonderful help in bring back any type of Data, however.
Briefly, go 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 could download your information as well as get a duplicate of what you have shared on Facebook.
Now do start your archive on this first web page. Furthermore discover where it says You could likewise Download a broadened archive ... as well as click the corresponding link. This will certainly direct you to the Expanded Archive Download page where you will be asked to re-enter your password.
Currently right here is where you will need patience. Depending on exactly how huge your main and also your expanded archive are and how many various other archives are in the queue, this can take some time. And also keeping that I suggest a number 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 what the web page will appear like.
Although your own images are expected to be consisted of in the archive, you must download your Facebook Photos separately. Not only is this treatment an additional backup, it is likewise a great deal faster as well as might supply you with more alternatives.
Restore Friends
As discussed above, you won't have the ability to Restore or migrate all of your Data and that includes your friends. You have to by hand add friends to your new account. However, it is not possible export your Facebook friends to a third party account and afterwards re-import them to a new Facebook account.
Nonetheless, you could import contacts 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 beyond Facebook, you can take a tiny faster way. Most likely to your brand-new Facebook account and also import contacts from any type of supported 3rd party account (CSV data are also supported) by means of the Find 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 contacts imported from Facebook will certainly not be included in a Yahoo! CSV file.
I created a separate short article on how to back up your Facebook contacts. Keep in mind that just contact information of friends that have consented to have their email address included in details downloads can be imported into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Here comes the huge disappointment. There is no other way to publish or otherwise import your archive to Restore or move Data from your old Facebook account to your new one. Whatever you intend to Restore, you need to do it (semi-) by hand or make use of third party devices. Today, the archive just works as a personal back-up, nothing more.
So just what are your choices? You could re-add your old friends as shown over, re-upload pictures you downloaded and install from your old account, re-tag your friends in your photos, re-join teams you belonged to, re-add Facebook apps, by hand re-do all your individual Settings, consisting of general account and also privacy Settings, e.g. safeguard your Facebook account, include trusted get in touches with, or conceal your personal Settings. I want I had good news, yet as I stated in the past, you could not auto-merge 2 accounts or Restore Data, so you essentially start from scratch.
What You Will Shed
You will lose a great deal! Your whole Timeline as well as Information Feed background will certainly be gone, consisting of blog posts or pictures you were tagged in, areas you checked into, all the Sorts you issued or obtained, or teams you belonged to, all your account and personal privacy Settings, as well as any other documents you built up with time. Your photos and also friends are truly all you can take with you, every little thing else has to be re-created manually.
Deactivate or Close Your Old Facebook Account.
If you choose to shut down or close your old Facebook account, make sure to add your new account as an admin to any Groups or Pages you handle. Or else you will shed access to them.
As soon as you have actually cared for admin duties, have downloaded all your Data, and also make sure you want to entirely eliminate your account, log into the Facebook account you wish to shut, as well as check out the Erase My Account web page to start the procedure. We have previously discussed How you can Appropriately Shut Your Facebook Account.
Final thought
Facebook permits you to Download an archive of your account. However, there is no coordinating system in position to restore your Data, needs to the account get jeopardized. Facebook never ever meant to supply a restore feature; rather they were lawfully compelled to supply a means for individuals to download their Data. Consequently, customers are left with nothing but half-baked services or awkward workarounds, ought to they want to merge or relocate accounts.
What would bother you most if you needed to relocate to a brand-new Facebook account?