While Facebook does not provide a way to auto-merge all your friends, images, status updates, check-ins or other information, you could by hand merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little preparation as well as persistence. However, you won't be able to move or re-create all your Data.
How to Merge Two Facebook Account
Bulk Download Data
As a very first step I recommend to mass download your Facebook Data, a procedure I have actually described formerly. This treatment could take a while and the archive will certainly act as a very little back-up, should you choose to shut down or remove your account. It won't be of excellent help in bring back any Data, however.
Quickly, most likely 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 obtain a duplicate of what you have actually shared on Facebook.
Currently do begin your archive on this very first web page. In addition find where it claims You could also Download a broadened archive ... and click the respective web link. This will certainly direct you to the Expanded Archive Download page where you will certainly be asked to re-enter your password.
Currently here is where you will require persistence. Depending upon how huge your major and also your broadened archive are and the number of various other archives are in the queue, this can spend some time. And keeping that I mean a number of hrs.
Note that you need to Download both archives, to get a complete backup of your account!
When your archive is available for download, this is what the web page will resemble.
Although your very own photos are expected to be included in the archive, you must download your Facebook Photos individually. Not only is this procedure an additional backup, it is additionally a great deal faster and could offer you with more options.
Restore Friends
As mentioned above, you won't have the ability to Restore or move all of your Data and that includes your friends. You should manually add friends to your brand-new account. However, it is not feasible export your Facebook friends to a 3rd party account then 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 the majority of your friends on accounts outside of Facebook, you could take a small faster way. Go to your brand-new Facebook account and also import get in touches with from any kind of supported third party account (CSV documents are also supported) via the Locate Friends web page.
While you could export your Facebook calls to Yahoo! Mail, it is not be feasible to re-import them to Facebook. And calls imported from Facebook will certainly not be consisted of in a Yahoo! CSV documents.
I wrote a separate post on ways to support your Facebook calls. Keep in mind that just contact details of friends who have consented to have their e-mail address consisted of in info downloads can be imported right into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Below comes the big disappointment. There is no way to submit or otherwise import your archive to Restore or move Data from your old Facebook account to your new one. Whatever you wish to Restore, you need to do it (semi-) manually or utilize 3rd party devices. Now, the archive merely functions as a personal backup, nothing even more.
So just what are your options? You could re-add your old friends as shown above, re-upload photos 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, including basic account as well as personal privacy Settings, e.g. secure your Facebook account, add relied on contacts, or conceal your individual Settings. I want I had great information, however as I stated before, you can not auto-merge 2 accounts or Restore Data, so you basically start from scratch.
What You Will Shed
You will certainly shed a lot! Your entire Timeline as well as News Feed background will certainly be gone, consisting of posts or images you were marked in, locations you checked into, all the Sorts you issued or got, or teams you were a member of, all your account and also privacy Settings, as well as other documents you collected with time. Your photos and also friends are truly all you could take with you, every little thing else has to be re-created by hand.
Deactivate or Shut Your Old Facebook Account.
If you determine to shut down or close your old Facebook account, make certain to add your brand-new account as an admin to any Groups or Pages you manage. Otherwise you will certainly lose accessibility to them.
When you have actually dealt with admin functions, have downloaded all your Data, and are sure you intend to totally eliminate your account, log right into the Facebook account you want to shut, as well as visit the Remove My Account web page to begin the procedure. We have actually previously discussed Ways to Properly Shut Your Facebook Account.
Conclusion
Facebook enables you to Download an archive of your account. Nonetheless, there is no matching system in place to recover your Data, ought to the account get compromised. Facebook never ever meant to give a recover function; instead they were legally compelled to use a means for users to download their Data. Therefore, users are entrusted to only half-baked services or uncomfortable workarounds, should they desire to merge or move accounts.
What would trouble you most if you needed to relocate to a brand-new Facebook account?