While Facebook does not provide a means to auto-merge all your friends, photos, condition updates, check-ins or various other info, you could by hand merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little preparation and patience. However, you will not have the ability to move or re-create all of your Data.
How to Combine Two Facebook Accounts
Bulk Download Data
As a primary step I recommend to bulk download your Facebook Data, a treatment I have explained previously. This procedure can spend some time as well as the archive will certainly function as a minimal back-up, ought to you determine to deactivate or delete your account. It won't be of terrific assistance in recovering any kind of Data, however.
Quickly, go 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 info as well as get a copy of what you have shared on Facebook.
Now do begin your archive on this first web page. Additionally locate where it states You could additionally Download an increased archive ... and click the corresponding web link. This will certainly direct you to the Expanded Archive Download web page where you will certainly be asked to re-enter your password.
Now below is where you will require perseverance. Relying on just how large your major and your expanded archive are and how many other archives are in the line, this can spend some time. And with that said I imply a number of hours.
Note that you must Download both archives, to receive a full back-up of your account!
Once your archive is readily available for download, this is what the web page will certainly appear like.
Although your own images are meant to be consisted of in the archive, you should download your Facebook Photos independently. Not just is this treatment another backup, it is likewise a whole lot faster and may supply you with more alternatives.
Restore Friends
As mentioned over, you won't have the ability to Restore or migrate all 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 third party account then re-import them to a brand-new Facebook account.
However, you can import contacts from third party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have call information of most of your friends on accounts outside of Facebook, you could take a small shortcut. Go to your brand-new Facebook account and also import get in touches with from any sustained 3rd party account (CSV files are likewise sustained) using the Find Friends page.
While you can 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 definitely not be consisted of in a Yahoo! CSV data.
I composed a different write-up on ways to back up your Facebook get in touches with. Keep in mind that just contact information of friends that have consented to have their e-mail address included in info downloads can be imported right into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Right here comes the large letdown. There is no way to submit 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 have to do it (semi-) manually or utilize 3rd party tools. Today, the archive simply serves as an individual backup, nothing more.
So just what are your choices? You could re-add your old friends as revealed above, re-upload pictures you downloaded and install from your old account, re-tag your friends in your images, re-join groups you belonged to, re-add Facebook applications, manually re-do all your individual Settings, consisting of basic account and also privacy Settings, e.g. safeguard your Facebook account, add relied on get in touches with, or hide your personal Settings. I desire I had great news, however 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 certainly Shed
You will lose a great deal! Your entire Timeline as well as News Feed history will certainly be gone, consisting of blog posts or photos you were tagged in, locations you checked out, all the Sorts you released or got, or groups you belonged to, all your account as well as personal privacy Settings, and also any other records you collected gradually. Your pictures as well as friends are truly all you can take with you, every little thing else needs to be re-created by hand.
Deactivate or Close Your Old Facebook Account.
If you decide to deactivate or shut your old Facebook account, be sure to add your new account as an admin to any kind of Groups or Pages you manage. Otherwise you will lose access to them.
Once you have actually dealt with admin functions, have downloaded all your Data, and also make sure you wish to completely eliminate your account, log into the Facebook account you wish to close, as well as visit the Erase My Account web page to start the procedure. We have formerly discussed Ways to Properly Close Your Facebook Account.
Conclusion
Facebook enables you to Download an archive of your account. Nevertheless, there is no coordinating system in place to restore your Data, should the account get endangered. Facebook never meant to supply a recover function; rather they were legally compelled to provide a way for users to download their Data. As a result, customers are entrusted only half-baked services or unpleasant workarounds, should they prefer to merge or relocate accounts.
Just what would certainly bother you most if you had to move to a brand-new Facebook account?