How to Merge Two Facebook Accounts
By
Arif Rahman
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Tuesday, September 18, 2018
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Merge Facebook Accounts
While Facebook does not provide a way to auto-merge all your friends, photos, standing updates, check-ins or various other info, you can by hand merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little preparation as well as perseverance. Sadly, you won't be able to move or re-create all your Data.
How To Merge Two Facebook Accounts
Bulk Download Data
As a first step I suggest to bulk download your Facebook Data, a procedure I have actually described formerly. This treatment could take some time and the archive will certainly serve as a very little back-up, must you determine to shut down or erase your account. It will not be of excellent assistance in bring back any type 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 could download your information and obtain a duplicate of just what you have shared on Facebook.
Currently do start your archive on this initial page. In addition discover where it states You could likewise Download an increased archive ... as well as click the corresponding web link. This will certainly 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 certainly need patience. Depending on just how huge your major and also your increased archive are and how many other archives are in the line, this can take some time. And also keeping that I indicate a number of hrs.
Keep in mind that you should Download both archives, to receive a full back-up of your account!
As soon as your archive is available for download, this is just what the page will certainly appear like.
Although your personal images are intended to be included in the archive, you should download your Facebook Photos individually. Not only is this treatment another backup, it is also a whole lot faster and also may supply you with more options.
Restore Friends
As stated over, you won't be able to Restore or migrate all of your Data and that includes your friends. You need 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 brand-new Facebook account.
Nonetheless, you could import calls from 3rd party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have call details of the majority of your friends on accounts beyond Facebook, you can take a small faster way. Go to your new Facebook account and import get in touches with from any sustained third party account (CSV documents are likewise supported) using 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. As well as contacts imported from Facebook will definitely not be consisted of in a Yahoo! CSV file.
I created a different article on how you can support your Facebook calls. Keep in mind that only call information of friends that have consented to have their email address included in details downloads can be imported into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Below comes the large disappointment. There is no chance to upload or otherwise import your archive to Restore or transfer Data from your old Facebook account to your new one. Whatever you want to Restore, you need to do it (semi-) by hand or make use of third party tools. Today, the archive just functions as a personal back-up, absolutely nothing even more.
So just what are your options? You could re-add your old friends as shown above, re-upload images you downloaded from your old account, re-tag your friends in your pictures, re-join groups you were a member of, re-add Facebook apps, by hand re-do all your personal Settings, consisting of general account and also privacy Settings, e.g. secure your Facebook account, add relied on contacts, or hide your individual Settings. I desire I had excellent information, but as I said before, you could not auto-merge two accounts or Restore Data, so you essentially start from scratch.
What You Will Lose
You will lose a great deal! Your entire Timeline and Information Feed history will certainly be gone, including articles or images you were marked in, locations you checked out, all the Likes you provided or received, or teams you were a member of, all your account as well as privacy Settings, and also any other records you accumulated over time. Your photos as well as friends are truly all you can take with you, everything else needs to be re-created by hand.
Shut down or Close Your Old Facebook Account.
If you choose to deactivate or close your old Facebook account, make certain to include your new account as an admin to any type of Groups or Pages you take care of. Otherwise you will certainly shed accessibility to them.
As soon as you have looked after admin functions, have downloaded all your Data, and make certain you intend to entirely eliminate your account, log into the Facebook account you intend to close, and also check out the Remove My Account web page to start the process. We have actually formerly clarified Ways to Properly Shut Your Facebook Account.
Final thought
Facebook allows you to Download an archive of your account. Nonetheless, there is no coordinating system in place to recover your Data, ought to the account obtain endangered. Facebook never ever meant to offer a restore function; instead they were legitimately required to supply a means for individuals to download their Data. Because of this, individuals are entrusted nothing but half-baked options or unpleasant workarounds, must they desire to merge or move accounts.
Just what would trouble you most if you had to transfer to a new Facebook account?