While Facebook does not provide a means to auto-merge all your friends, photos, standing updates, check-ins or various other details, you could by hand merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little preparation and perseverance. Regrettably, you will not be able to move or re-create all your Data.
How to Merge Accounts On Facebook
Bulk Download Data
As an initial step I advise to bulk download your Facebook Data, a procedure I have actually described previously. This procedure can spend some time and the archive will certainly act as a very little backup, need to you choose to shut down or remove your account. It will not be of wonderful assistance in recovering any kind of Data, though.
Briefly, most likely to your General Account Settings and click Download a copy of your Facebook Data at the bottom.
This will lead you to a page where you can download your information and also obtain a copy of just what you have actually shared on Facebook.
Currently do start your archive on this very first web page. Furthermore discover where it says You could additionally Download a broadened archive ... and click the corresponding link. This will direct you to the Expanded Archive Download page where you will be asked to re-enter your password.
Currently below is where you will need patience. Depending upon how huge your primary and your broadened archive are and also the number of various other archives are in the line, this could take some time. And with that I suggest a couple of hours.
Keep in mind that you have to Download both archives, to get a complete backup of your account!
Once your archive is available for download, this is exactly what the web page will certainly resemble.
Although your own pictures are intended to be consisted of in the archive, you must download your Facebook Photos separately. Not only is this treatment another backup, it is additionally a great deal faster and might supply you with more options.
Restore Friends
As pointed out over, you will not be able to Restore or move all of your Data which includes your friends. You have to manually include friends to your brand-new account. Sadly, it is not feasible export your Facebook friends to a 3rd party account and after that re-import them to a brand-new Facebook account.
Nonetheless, you can import get in touches with from third party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have get in touch with information of a lot of your friends on accounts outside of Facebook, you can take a little shortcut. Go to your new Facebook account and import calls from any kind of sustained third party account (CSV documents are additionally supported) by means of the Locate Friends 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 contacts imported from Facebook will absolutely not be included in a Yahoo! CSV file.
I composed a separate article on the best ways to support your Facebook contacts. Note that just call info of friends that have actually agreed to have their email address included in info downloads can be imported into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Right here comes the large disappointment. There is no other way to submit or otherwise import your archive to Restore or transfer Data from your old Facebook account to your new one. Whatever you intend to Restore, you have to do it (semi-) by hand or utilize 3rd party devices. Today, the archive just functions as a personal back-up, nothing even more.
So what are your options? You could 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 applications, by hand re-do all your personal Settings, consisting of general account and also personal privacy Settings, e.g. safeguard your Facebook account, add trusted calls, or hide your personal Settings. I want I had great news, but as I stated before, you could 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 entire Timeline and also Information Feed history will be gone, including articles or photos you were identified in, areas you checked out, all the Sorts you released or obtained, or teams you were a member of, all your account and privacy Settings, as well as any other documents you accumulated in time. Your photos and also friends are really all you can take with you, every little thing else needs to be re-created manually.
Deactivate or Close Your Old Facebook Account.
If you choose to shut off or shut your old Facebook account, be sure to include your brand-new account as an admin to any kind of Teams or Pages you handle. Otherwise you will certainly lose accessibility to them.
As soon as you have actually cared for admin duties, have downloaded all your Data, as well as are sure you intend to totally remove your account, log right into the Facebook account you want to close, and check out the Remove My Account page to kick off the process. We have previously discussed How To Appropriately Shut Your Facebook Account.
Conclusion
Facebook enables you to Download an archive of your account. Nonetheless, there is no coordinating system in position to recover your Data, should the account obtain compromised. Facebook never intended to provide a restore feature; rather they were lawfully forced to provide a means for customers to download their Data. As a result, customers are entrusted nothing but half-baked services or uncomfortable workarounds, must they want to merge or move accounts.
Just what would trouble you most if you had to move to a new Facebook account?