Merge Two Facebook Accounts
By
Arif Rahman
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Saturday, October 6, 2018
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Merge Facebook Accounts
While Facebook does not use a means to auto-merge all your friends, photos, status updates, check-ins or various other information, you can by hand merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little prep work as well as patience. Unfortunately, you will not have the ability to move or re-create all your Data.
Merge Two Facebook Accounts
Bulk Download Data
As a first step I advise to bulk download your Facebook Data, a procedure I have defined formerly. This procedure can take a while and also the archive will serve as a very little back-up, should you make a decision to shut off or erase your account. It will not be of wonderful 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 near the bottom.
This will certainly lead you to a web page where you can download your information and also obtain a copy of exactly what you have shared on Facebook.
Now do start your archive on this initial page. Furthermore discover where it says You can likewise Download an increased archive ... as well as click the corresponding link. This will guide you to the Expanded Archive Download web page where you will certainly be asked to re-enter your password.
Now here is where you will require patience. Depending upon exactly how large your major as well as your increased archive are as well as the number of various other archives are in the line, this could spend some time. And with that I imply a number of hrs.
Note that you have to Download both archives, to obtain a complete backup of your account!
Once your archive is available for download, this is just what the page will look like.
Although your personal pictures are supposed to be included in the archive, you should download your Facebook Photos individually. Not just is this treatment one more back-up, it is also a great deal faster and also may offer you with more options.
Restore Friends
As pointed out above, you will not have the ability to Restore or move all of your Data and that includes your friends. You have to by hand include friends to your brand-new account. However, it is not possible export your Facebook friends to a third party account and then re-import them to a new Facebook account.
However, you can import contacts from third party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have call details of a lot of your friends on accounts beyond Facebook, you can take a small faster way. Go to your brand-new Facebook account as well as import calls from any type of supported 3rd party account (CSV documents are additionally sustained) through the Locate Friends page.
While you can export your Facebook calls to Yahoo! Mail, it is not be feasible to re-import them to Facebook. And contacts imported from Facebook will certainly not be consisted of in a Yahoo! CSV data.
I created a separate write-up on the best ways to support your Facebook contacts. Note that just contact details of friends that have accepted have their e-mail address included in details downloads can be imported right into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Right here comes the huge letdown. There is no chance to post or otherwise import your archive to Restore or transfer Data from your old Facebook account to your brand-new one. Whatever you want to Restore, you have to do it (semi-) by hand or make use of 3rd party devices. Today, the archive just acts as a personal backup, absolutely nothing even more.
So exactly what are your alternatives? You can re-add your old friends as revealed over, re-upload images you downloaded and install from your old account, re-tag your friends in your photos, re-join groups you belonged to, re-add Facebook apps, manually re-do all your personal Settings, consisting of general account and also personal privacy Settings, e.g. secure your Facebook account, include trusted calls, or hide your personal Settings. I desire I had great information, yet as I claimed in the past, you could not auto-merge 2 accounts or Restore Data, so you essentially go back to square one.
What You Will Lose
You will lose a whole lot! Your entire Timeline and also Information Feed background will be gone, consisting of posts or pictures you were identified in, locations you looked into, all the Likes you provided or got, or groups you were a member of, all your account and also personal privacy Settings, and any other records you accumulated over time. Your images and friends are actually all you can take with you, whatever else needs to be re-created manually.
Shut off or Shut Your Old Facebook Account.
If you choose to shut off or close your old Facebook account, be sure to add your new account as an admin to any Teams or Pages you take care of. Or else you will shed access to them.
When you have actually looked after admin functions, have downloaded and install all your Data, as well as make sure you want to completely remove your account, log right into the Facebook account you wish to shut, as well as visit the Delete My Account page to begin the process. We have formerly clarified The best ways to Correctly Close Your Facebook Account.
Verdict
Facebook allows you to Download an archive of your account. Nevertheless, there is no matching system in place to recover your Data, ought to the account get endangered. Facebook never intended to provide a restore attribute; instead they were lawfully compelled to provide a method for users to download their Data. Consequently, individuals are left with only half-baked remedies or uncomfortable workarounds, ought to they prefer to merge or move accounts.
What would certainly trouble you most if you needed to relocate to a new Facebook account?