While Facebook does not provide a method to auto-merge all your friends, photos, standing updates, check-ins or other information, you can by hand merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little preparation and also patience. Regrettably, you will not have the ability to move or re-create every one of your Data.
Merge Two Facebook Accounts
Mass Download Data
As a very first step I suggest to bulk download your Facebook Data, a procedure I have described previously. This treatment can spend some time and also the archive will act as a minimal backup, must you determine to deactivate or erase your account. It will not be of great help in bring back any type of Data, however.
Briefly, go to your General Account Settings and click Download a copy of your Facebook Data near the bottom.
This will certainly lead you to a web page where you can download your info as well as obtain a copy of exactly what you have shared on Facebook.
Now do start your archive on this first web page. In addition locate where it says You can also Download an increased archive ... and also click the corresponding link. This will lead you to the Expanded Archive Download web page where you will certainly be asked to re-enter your password.
Currently right here is where you will require patience. Depending on just how large your main and also your broadened archive are and also the number of various other archives remain in the line, this can spend some time. As well as with that I indicate a few hrs.
Keep in mind that you have to Download both archives, to receive a full backup of your account!
Once your archive is readily available for download, this is what the page will look like.
Although your very own pictures are expected to be included in the archive, you ought to download your Facebook Photos independently. Not just is this procedure one more backup, it is likewise a great deal faster and might supply you with even more options.
Restore Friends
As pointed out over, you will not have the ability to Restore or migrate all your Data and that includes your friends. You have to manually add friends to your new account. However, it is not possible export your Facebook friends to a third party account and then re-import them to a new Facebook account.
Nevertheless, you could import contacts from third party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have contact information of a lot of your friends on accounts outside of Facebook, you could take a tiny faster way. Most likely to your brand-new Facebook account and also import calls from any kind of supported 3rd party account (CSV documents are additionally supported) using the Discover Friends page.
While you can export your Facebook contacts to Yahoo! Mail, it is not be feasible to re-import them to Facebook. And contacts imported from Facebook will definitely not be included in a Yahoo! CSV file.
I wrote a separate article on the best ways to back up your Facebook calls. Keep in mind that just get in touch with details of friends that have actually consented to have their email address included in information downloads can be imported into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Here comes the large letdown. There is no way to submit or otherwise import your archive to Restore or move Data from your old Facebook account to your brand-new one. Whatever you want to Restore, you have to do it (semi-) manually or use third party devices. Now, the archive just serves as an individual backup, absolutely nothing even more.
So what are your alternatives? You can re-add your old friends as shown over, re-upload images 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, by hand re-do all your personal Settings, including basic account and privacy Settings, e.g. safeguard your Facebook account, add trusted calls, or hide your individual Settings. I desire I had great information, yet as I stated previously, you can not auto-merge two accounts or Restore Data, so you essentially go back to square one.
What You Will certainly Lose
You will shed a whole lot! Your entire Timeline and also News Feed history will be gone, consisting of posts or photos you were marked in, places you checked out, all the Sorts you issued or received, or teams you were a member of, all your account and also privacy Settings, and also other records you built up gradually. Your pictures as well as friends are really all you can take with you, everything else needs to be re-created by hand.
Deactivate or Shut Your Old Facebook Account.
If you decide to deactivate or close your old Facebook account, be sure to add your brand-new account as an admin to any Groups or Pages you take care of. Otherwise you will shed accessibility to them.
When you have cared for admin functions, have downloaded and install all your Data, and make certain you intend to entirely remove your account, log into the Facebook account you want to shut, and also see the Delete My Account web page to begin the procedure. We have actually previously described How To Correctly Close Your Facebook Account.
Verdict
Facebook permits you to Download an archive of your account. However, there is no matching system in position to restore your Data, needs to the account get compromised. Facebook never meant to provide a restore function; rather they were lawfully compelled to supply a method for individuals to download their Data. Because of this, individuals are entrusted to nothing but half-baked remedies or awkward workarounds, should they desire to merge or move accounts.
Just what would trouble you most if you had to move to a brand-new Facebook account?