How to Merge 2 Facebook Accounts 2019
By
Arif Rahman
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Wednesday, February 27, 2019
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Merge Facebook Accounts
While Facebook does not offer a method to auto-merge all your friends, images, condition updates, check-ins or other details, you can manually merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little prep work and patience. However, you won't have the ability to migrate or re-create all your Data.
How To Merge 2 Facebook Accounts
Bulk Download Data
As a first step I advise to bulk download your Facebook Data, a treatment I have actually explained formerly. This procedure could take some time and also the archive will certainly serve as a very little back-up, need to you determine to shut down or erase your account. It won't be of great assistance in recovering any type of Data, though.
Quickly, go to your General Account Settings and click Download a copy of your Facebook Data near the bottom.
This will certainly lead you to a page where you could download your details and also obtain a copy of just what you have actually shared on Facebook.
Now do start your archive on this initial web page. Additionally discover where it says You could additionally Download an increased archive ... as well as click the respective link. This will direct you to the Expanded Archive Download page where you will certainly be asked to re-enter your password.
Now below is where you will certainly require persistence. Depending on how huge your primary and also your increased archive are and also how many various other archives are in the line up, this can spend some time. As well as with that I imply a few hours.
Note that you need to Download both archives, to obtain a full back-up of your account!
Once your archive is readily available for download, this is just what the web page will certainly resemble.
Although your very own images are meant to be included in the archive, you need to download your Facebook Photos individually. Not just is this procedure one more backup, it is additionally a whole lot faster as well as could offer you with even more choices.
Restore Friends
As discussed over, you will not be able to Restore or move all your Data and that includes your friends. You have to by hand include friends to your 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.
Nevertheless, you could import get in touches with from third party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have contact information of the majority of your friends on accounts beyond Facebook, you could take a tiny shortcut. Go to your brand-new Facebook account and also import contacts from any type of supported 3rd party account (CSV data are also supported) by means of the Discover 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 contacts imported from Facebook will definitely not be consisted of in a Yahoo! CSV documents.
I composed a different write-up on the best ways to back up your Facebook calls. Keep in mind that only contact details of friends that have accepted have their email address consisted of in information downloads can be imported into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Here comes the large letdown. There is no chance 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 have to do it (semi-) by hand or utilize 3rd party devices. Today, the archive just functions as an individual backup, nothing even more.
So just what are your alternatives? You can re-add your old friends as revealed above, re-upload photos you downloaded from your old account, re-tag your friends in your pictures, re-join groups you belonged to, re-add Facebook apps, by hand re-do all your personal Settings, consisting of general account as well as personal privacy Settings, e.g. secure your Facebook account, add relied on contacts, or hide your individual Settings. I want I had excellent news, but as I stated before, you can not auto-merge two accounts or Restore Data, so you essentially start from scratch.
What You Will certainly Shed
You will shed a lot! Your entire Timeline and also Information Feed background will certainly be gone, including messages or photos you were labelled in, locations you looked into, all the Sorts you provided or obtained, or teams you were a member of, all your account and personal privacy Settings, and also other records you built up gradually. Your pictures and friends are truly all you could take with you, whatever else has to be re-created manually.
Deactivate or Shut Your Old Facebook Account.
If you make a decision to deactivate or shut your old Facebook account, make sure to include your new account as an admin to any Groups or Pages you manage. Otherwise you will shed accessibility to them.
Once you have dealt with admin functions, have downloaded all your Data, and are sure you intend to entirely remove your account, log into the Facebook account you wish to shut, as well as go to the Remove My Account web page to begin the procedure. We have formerly described How you can Correctly Shut Your Facebook Account.
Verdict
Facebook enables you to Download an archive of your account. However, there is no coordinating system in place to restore your Data, ought to the account get endangered. Facebook never intended to provide a restore function; instead they were legally compelled to provide a means for customers to download their Data. As a result, individuals are entrusted just half-baked services or uncomfortable workarounds, must they prefer to merge or move accounts.
What would bother you most if you needed to transfer to a new Facebook account?