How to Combine Facebook Accounts
By
Arif Rahman
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Sunday, December 23, 2018
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Merge Facebook Accounts
While Facebook does not use a way to auto-merge all your friends, images, status updates, check-ins or various other information, you can manually merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little preparation as well as perseverance. Regrettably, you won't have the ability to move or re-create all of your Data.
How To Combine Facebook Accounts
Bulk Download Data
As a very first step I advise to mass download your Facebook Data, a procedure I have explained formerly. This procedure could take some time and the archive will certainly work as a minimal backup, ought to you choose to shut down or delete your account. It will not be of wonderful help in bring back any kind of Data, though.
Quickly, go to your General Account Settings and click Download a copy of your Facebook Data near the bottom.
This will lead you to a web page where you can download your details and also obtain a copy of what you have actually shared on Facebook.
Currently do begin your archive on this very first page. On top of that discover where it says You could likewise Download an increased archive ... and click the corresponding link. This will certainly guide you to the Expanded Archive Download page where you will certainly be asked to re-enter your password.
Now right here is where you will need perseverance. Relying on exactly how big your primary and also your increased archive are as well as the amount of various other archives are in the line, this could take some time. As well as with that said I indicate a few hrs.
Keep in mind that you need to Download both archives, to obtain a full backup of your account!
When your archive is offered for download, this is what the page will look like.
Although your very own images are supposed to be included in the archive, you ought to download your Facebook Photos independently. Not only is this procedure an additional backup, it is additionally a whole lot faster and may offer you with more alternatives.
Restore Friends
As stated over, you won't have the ability to Restore or move every one of your Data and that includes your friends. You need 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 afterwards 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 contact information of the majority of your friends on accounts outside of Facebook, you can take a tiny faster way. Most likely to your brand-new Facebook account and also import get in touches with from any type of sustained 3rd party account (CSV data are likewise sustained) by means of the Find Friends web 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 get in touches with imported from Facebook will certainly not be consisted of in a Yahoo! CSV file.
I wrote a different post on ways to back up your Facebook get in touches with. Note that just call details of friends who have actually consented to have their e-mail address consisted of in information downloads can be imported into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Here comes the huge disappointment. There is no chance to publish 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 have to do it (semi-) manually or utilize third party tools. Now, the archive merely works as an individual back-up, nothing even more.
So what are your alternatives? You can re-add your old friends as revealed over, re-upload photos you downloaded from your old account, re-tag your friends in your images, re-join groups you were a member of, re-add Facebook apps, by hand re-do all your personal Settings, consisting of basic account and also personal privacy Settings, e.g. protect your Facebook account, add trusted get in touches with, or conceal your individual Settings. I desire I had excellent information, but as I said in the past, you could not auto-merge two accounts or Restore Data, so you essentially start from scratch.
What You Will Lose
You will certainly shed a lot! Your whole Timeline and also Information Feed history will be gone, consisting of articles or images you were identified in, locations you looked into, all the Likes you provided or obtained, or teams you were a member of, all your account and also privacy Settings, and also any other records you collected with time. Your images as well as friends are truly all you can take with you, every little thing else has to be re-created manually.
Shut off or Shut Your Old Facebook Account.
If you make a decision to shut off 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.
Once you have actually taken care of admin duties, have downloaded all your Data, and make sure you want to completely remove your account, log into the Facebook account you intend to shut, as well as check out the Remove My Account web page to kick off the procedure. We have previously clarified How you can Properly Shut Your Facebook Account.
Final thought
Facebook permits you to Download an archive of your account. However, there is no coordinating system in position to recover your Data, ought to the account obtain compromised. Facebook never ever intended to offer a restore attribute; rather they were lawfully compelled to supply a method for individuals to download their Data. Consequently, customers are left with nothing but half-baked remedies or uncomfortable workarounds, should they desire to merge or move accounts.
Exactly what would trouble you most if you needed to transfer to a new Facebook account?