While Facebook does not provide a means to auto-merge all your friends, pictures, status updates, check-ins or other info, you can by hand merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little preparation as well as persistence. Unfortunately, you will not be able to move or re-create all your Data.
How Do You Combine Facebook Accounts
Bulk Download Data
As a primary step I advise to mass download your Facebook Data, a treatment I have described formerly. This procedure can spend some time as well as the archive will certainly serve as a marginal backup, should you make a decision to shut down or remove your account. It won't be of terrific assistance in recovering any type of Data, however.
Quickly, go to your General Account Settings as well as click Download a copy of your Facebook Data at the bottom.
This will certainly lead you to a web page where you can download your information and also get a duplicate of what you have actually shared on Facebook.
Now do start your archive on this first web page. Additionally find where it claims You can also Download an increased archive ... and also click the respective link. This will lead you to the Expanded Archive Download page where you will certainly be asked to re-enter your password.
Now below is where you will certainly need persistence. Depending on how big your major as well as your expanded archive are as well as the number of other archives are in the line up, this could spend some time. And with that said I mean a couple of hrs.
Keep in mind that you must Download both archives, to obtain a full back-up of your account!
Once your archive is readily available for download, this is exactly what the web page will look like.
Although your own images are meant to be included in the archive, you must download your Facebook Photos independently. Not just is this treatment another backup, it is likewise a whole lot faster and could supply you with even more alternatives.
Restore Friends
As stated above, you won't have the ability to Restore or move every one of your Data and that includes your friends. You need to by hand include friends to your new account. Regrettably, it is not possible export your Facebook friends to a 3rd party account and then re-import them to a brand-new Facebook account.
Nonetheless, you can import calls from third party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have contact information of most of your friends on accounts beyond Facebook, you can take a small shortcut. Most likely to your brand-new Facebook account and also import contacts from any kind of sustained 3rd party account (CSV data are likewise sustained) through the Find Friends page.
While you can export your Facebook contacts to Yahoo! Mail, it is not be possible to re-import them to Facebook. As well as get in touches with imported from Facebook will absolutely not be included in a Yahoo! CSV file.
I created a separate short article on how you can support your Facebook contacts. Note that just get in touch with details of friends who have consented to have their email address included in details downloads can be imported into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Right here comes the big letdown. There is no way to publish or otherwise import your archive to Restore or transfer Data from your old Facebook account to your new one. Whatever you want to Restore, you have to do it (semi-) manually or make use of third party devices. Today, the archive simply works as an individual backup, nothing even more.
So just 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 pictures, re-join teams you belonged to, re-add Facebook apps, manually re-do all your personal Settings, consisting of general account and personal privacy Settings, e.g. protect your Facebook account, add relied on contacts, or conceal your personal Settings. I wish I had great news, however as I claimed before, you can not auto-merge two accounts or Restore Data, so you essentially start from scratch.
What You Will certainly Lose
You will certainly lose a lot! Your entire Timeline as well as Information Feed background will be gone, including blog posts or photos you were labelled in, locations you looked into, all the Likes you issued or received, or groups you were a member of, all your account as well as privacy Settings, as well as any other documents you collected in time. Your photos and friends are actually all you could take with you, every little thing else has to be re-created manually.
Deactivate or Shut Your Old Facebook Account.
If you determine to deactivate or shut your old Facebook account, make certain to add your brand-new account as an admin to any Teams or Pages you take care of. Or else you will certainly shed accessibility to them.
When you have looked after admin roles, have actually downloaded and install all your Data, and also are sure you wish to totally remove your account, log right into the Facebook account you intend to close, and also go to the Erase My Account web page to kick off the procedure. We have actually formerly described Ways to Properly Shut Your Facebook Account.
Conclusion
Facebook enables you to Download an archive of your account. Nevertheless, there is no coordinating system in position to restore your Data, must the account get jeopardized. Facebook never ever intended to supply a restore attribute; instead they were legitimately compelled to offer a method for individuals to download their Data. Therefore, customers are entrusted to only half-baked remedies or unpleasant workarounds, ought to they want to merge or move accounts.
Just what would certainly trouble you most if you had to transfer to a new Facebook account?