Merge Facebook Profiles
By
Arif Rahman
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Thursday, September 6, 2018
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Merge Facebook Accounts
While Facebook does not offer a way to auto-merge all your friends, images, status 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. However, you will not be able to migrate or re-create all of your Data.
Merge Facebook Profiles
Bulk Download Data
As a very first step I advise to mass download your Facebook Data, a treatment I have actually described previously. This procedure could take a while and also the archive will certainly act as a marginal back-up, must you decide to shut off or delete your account. It won't be of great aid 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 near the bottom.
This will certainly lead you to a page where you can download your information as well as obtain a duplicate of exactly what you have shared on Facebook.
Now do start your archive on this very first web page. In addition locate where it states You can additionally Download a broadened archive ... and also click the respective web link. This will direct you to the Expanded Archive Download page where you will be asked to re-enter your password.
Currently here is where you will certainly require persistence. Relying on exactly how big your primary as well as your broadened archive are and also how many various other archives are in the line up, this could spend some time. And with that I mean a number of hours.
Note that you need to Download both archives, to obtain a full backup of your account!
As soon as your archive is readily available for download, this is exactly what the web page will resemble.
Although your very own images are meant to be included in the archive, you need to download your Facebook Photos independently. Not only is this procedure another back-up, it is likewise a great deal faster as well as may supply you with even more options.
Restore Friends
As mentioned over, you won't be able to Restore or migrate all of your Data and that includes your friends. You should by hand include friends to your new account. Unfortunately, it is not feasible export your Facebook friends to a 3rd party account then re-import them to a new Facebook account.
However, you can import calls from third party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have call details of most of your friends on accounts outside of Facebook, you could take a tiny shortcut. Go to your new Facebook account as well as import get in touches with from any kind of sustained third party account (CSV files are likewise supported) through the Find 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 calls imported from Facebook will certainly not be included in a Yahoo! CSV documents.
I wrote a different post on the best ways to back up your Facebook contacts. Note that only get in touch with information of friends that have accepted have their e-mail address included in information downloads can be imported right into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Right here comes the huge letdown. There is no chance to submit or otherwise import your archive to Restore or move Data from your old Facebook account to your brand-new one. Whatever you wish to Restore, you need to do it (semi-) by hand or make use of 3rd party tools. Now, the archive simply functions as an individual back-up, absolutely nothing even more.
So exactly what are your choices? 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, manually re-do all your personal Settings, consisting of basic account as well as personal privacy Settings, e.g. protect your Facebook account, add relied on get in touches with, or hide your personal Settings. I desire I had great news, however as I said in the past, you could not auto-merge 2 accounts or Restore Data, so you basically start from scratch.
What You Will Lose
You will lose a whole lot! Your whole Timeline and News Feed history will certainly be gone, including blog posts or pictures you were marked in, areas you checked out, all the Sorts you released or received, or groups you were a member of, all your account and privacy Settings, and other documents you collected over time. Your images as well as friends are truly all you can take with you, every little thing else needs to be re-created by hand.
Shut down or Close Your Old Facebook Account.
If you make a decision to deactivate or close your old Facebook account, make sure to include your brand-new account as an admin to any kind of Groups or Pages you handle. Or else you will lose access to them.
When you have actually taken care of admin functions, have downloaded all your Data, as well as are sure you wish to totally remove your account, log right into the Facebook account you intend to shut, and visit the Erase My Account page to kick off the procedure. We have formerly clarified How you can Properly Shut Your Facebook Account.
Verdict
Facebook allows you to Download an archive of your account. Nevertheless, there is no coordinating system in place to recover your Data, should the account obtain compromised. Facebook never meant to give a restore feature; instead they were legally forced to provide a way for customers to download their Data. Because of this, users are entrusted only half-baked remedies or uncomfortable workarounds, should they prefer to merge or relocate accounts.
Exactly what would certainly bother you most if you had to relocate to a brand-new Facebook account?