How to Merge Two Facebook Account
By
Arif Rahman
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Thursday, September 6, 2018
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Merge Facebook Accounts
While Facebook does not provide a way to auto-merge all your friends, images, status updates, check-ins or other details, you can manually merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little preparation and persistence. Unfortunately, you will not have the ability to migrate or re-create all of your Data.
How to Merge Two Facebook Account
Mass Download Data
As a primary step I recommend to mass download your Facebook Data, a treatment I have actually explained formerly. This treatment could spend some time as well as the archive will certainly serve as a marginal back-up, should you determine to shut down or erase your account. It won't be of terrific help in bring back any type of Data, however.
Briefly, go to your General Account Settings and also click Download a copy of your Facebook Data at the bottom.
This will lead you to a web page where you could download your information as well as obtain a duplicate of what you have actually shared on Facebook.
Currently do start your archive on this initial page. In addition discover where it says You can likewise Download an increased archive ... and click the respective web link. This will lead you to the Expanded Archive Download web page where you will be asked to re-enter your password.
Now below is where you will require patience. Relying on how huge your primary and your increased archive are as well as the amount of other archives remain in the line, this could take some time. And with that I suggest a number of hrs.
Keep in mind that you should Download both archives, to obtain a full back-up of your account!
When your archive is readily available for download, this is exactly what the page will appear like.
Although your personal photos are supposed to be included in the archive, you should download your Facebook Photos individually. Not only is this procedure one more backup, it is also a whole lot faster and could give you with more alternatives.
Restore Friends
As pointed out above, you will not be able to Restore or migrate all your Data which includes your friends. You have to by hand add friends to your brand-new account. Sadly, it is not feasible export your Facebook friends to a third party account and after that re-import them to a new Facebook account.
Nevertheless, you could import calls from third party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have call details of the majority of your friends on accounts beyond Facebook, you could take a small faster way. Go to your brand-new Facebook account and also import contacts from any supported third party account (CSV files are likewise sustained) using the Locate Friends page.
While you can export your Facebook get in touches with to Yahoo! Mail, it is not be feasible to re-import them to Facebook. As well as contacts imported from Facebook will definitely not be included in a Yahoo! CSV documents.
I composed a separate article on the best ways to support your Facebook get in touches with. Note that only get in touch with 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
Below comes the huge disappointment. There is no other way to publish or otherwise import your archive to Restore or transfer Data from your old Facebook account to your brand-new one. Whatever you intend to Restore, you need to do it (semi-) by hand or make use of third party tools. Today, the archive merely functions as an individual backup, absolutely nothing more.
So what are your choices? You could re-add your old friends as revealed over, re-upload photos you downloaded from your old account, re-tag your friends in your photos, re-join teams you belonged to, re-add Facebook apps, manually re-do all your individual Settings, consisting of basic account and privacy Settings, e.g. safeguard your Facebook account, add trusted calls, or hide your individual Settings. I desire I had excellent news, yet as I claimed in the past, you could not auto-merge two accounts or Restore Data, so you basically go back to square one.
What You Will Shed
You will lose a whole lot! Your entire Timeline and News Feed background will certainly be gone, including blog posts or pictures you were marked in, areas you checked into, all the Sorts you released or obtained, or teams you belonged to, all your account and privacy Settings, as well as other documents you gathered gradually. Your photos and also friends are actually all you could take with you, whatever else needs to be re-created by hand.
Shut off or Close Your Old Facebook Account.
If you determine to shut off or close your old Facebook account, make sure to include your brand-new account as an admin to any type of Teams or Pages you take care of. Otherwise you will shed access to them.
When you have actually looked after admin roles, have downloaded and install all your Data, as well as make sure you want to completely eliminate your account, log right into the Facebook account you want to close, as well as go to the Delete My Account page to start the procedure. We have formerly described How you can Appropriately Shut Your Facebook Account.
Verdict
Facebook permits you to Download an archive of your account. Nonetheless, there is no matching system in position to recover your Data, should the account get endangered. Facebook never intended to offer a bring back function; rather they were legitimately forced to supply a method for individuals to download their Data. Consequently, individuals are left with nothing but half-baked options or unpleasant workarounds, must they prefer to merge or move accounts.
What would trouble you most if you had to move to a new Facebook account?