How to Combine Two Facebook Accounts
By
Arif Rahman
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Monday, September 24, 2018
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Merge Facebook Accounts
While Facebook does not use a means to auto-merge all your friends, images, standing updates, check-ins or various other info, you can manually merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little preparation and also perseverance. Regrettably, you won't have the ability to migrate or re-create all your Data.
How To Combine Two Facebook Accounts
Bulk Download Data
As a first step I suggest to mass download your Facebook Data, a treatment I have explained formerly. This procedure can take some time and the archive will certainly function as a very little back-up, ought to you choose to deactivate or delete your account. It won't be of wonderful assistance in bring back any type of 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 lead you to a web page where you can download your information and also obtain a duplicate of just what you have actually shared on Facebook.
Now do begin your archive on this initial web page. Additionally locate where it claims You can additionally Download an expanded archive ... and click the particular web link. This will lead 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 certainly need patience. Relying on just how huge your primary and your broadened archive are and the amount of various other archives remain in the queue, this can spend some time. And with that I imply a number of hours.
Note that you have to Download both archives, to receive a full backup of your account!
When your archive is offered for download, this is just what the page will look like.
Although your very own pictures are expected to be consisted of in the archive, you should download your Facebook Photos separately. Not only is this procedure another backup, it is likewise a lot faster and might give you with more alternatives.
Restore Friends
As discussed over, you will not be able to Restore or move all your Data which includes your friends. You should by hand include friends to your new account. Unfortunately, it is not feasible export your Facebook friends to a third party account and then re-import them to a brand-new Facebook account.
However, you can import calls from third party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have get in touch with details of the majority of your friends on accounts outside of Facebook, you could take a little faster way. Go to your new Facebook account and import contacts from any kind of supported third party account (CSV files are likewise supported) by means of the Find Friends web page.
While you could export your Facebook calls 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 wrote a separate write-up on ways to support your Facebook contacts. Note that just call info of friends that have actually accepted have their email address included in information downloads can be imported into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Right here comes the huge disappointment. There is no chance 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-) by hand or utilize 3rd party tools. Right now, the archive just works as an individual back-up, absolutely nothing even more.
So exactly what are your alternatives? You could re-add your old friends as shown over, re-upload photos you downloaded from your old account, re-tag your friends in your photos, re-join teams you were a member of, re-add Facebook applications, by hand re-do all your individual Settings, consisting of basic account as well as privacy Settings, e.g. safeguard your Facebook account, include relied on contacts, or hide your personal Settings. I wish I had excellent news, yet as I stated previously, you can not auto-merge two accounts or Restore Data, so you basically go back to square one.
What You Will Shed
You will certainly shed a lot! Your entire Timeline and also Information Feed history will certainly be gone, including messages or pictures you were marked in, locations you checked out, all the Likes you provided or received, or groups you were a member of, all your account as well as privacy Settings, and also any other records you accumulated in time. Your pictures and friends are really all you can take with you, everything else needs to be re-created manually.
Deactivate or Close Your Old Facebook Account.
If you choose to deactivate or shut your old Facebook account, make sure to add your brand-new account as an admin to any Teams or Pages you take care of. Or else you will certainly lose access to them.
As soon as you have actually dealt with admin functions, have downloaded and install all your Data, as well as make sure you wish to completely remove your account, log into the Facebook account you want to shut, and also see the Delete My Account web page to kick off the procedure. We have previously discussed How you can Effectively Close Your Facebook Account.
Verdict
Facebook permits you to Download an archive of your account. Nevertheless, there is no matching system in position to recover your Data, must the account obtain jeopardized. Facebook never intended to supply a bring back attribute; rather they were legitimately forced to offer a means for customers to download their Data. Consequently, customers are entrusted nothing but half-baked services or awkward workarounds, ought to they want to merge or relocate accounts.
Exactly what would certainly trouble you most if you had to transfer to a brand-new Facebook account?