How to Combine Two Facebook Accounts 2019
By
Anjih Najxu
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Tuesday, October 22, 2019
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Merge Facebook Accounts
While Facebook does not supply a means to auto-merge all your friends, images, standing updates, check-ins or other information, you could manually merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little prep work and also persistence. Unfortunately, you won't have the ability to migrate or re-create all your Data.
How To Combine Two Facebook Accounts
Mass Download Data
As a first step I suggest to mass download your Facebook Data, a treatment I have defined previously. This procedure could spend some time and the archive will certainly function as a marginal backup, need to you determine to deactivate or delete your account. It will not be of excellent help in restoring any Data, however.
Briefly, most likely to your General Account Settings as well as click Download a copy of your Facebook Data at the bottom.
This will lead you to a page where you can download your details as well as get a copy of just what you have actually shared on Facebook.
Currently do start your archive on this first web page. On top of that locate where it states You can additionally Download an expanded archive ... and also click the corresponding link. This will certainly direct 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 patience. Depending on how large your main and your broadened archive are as well as the amount of other archives remain in the line, this can spend some time. And keeping that I suggest a couple of hours.
Keep in mind that you should Download both archives, to receive a full backup of your account!
As soon as your archive is available for download, this is exactly what the page will certainly look like.
Although your own pictures are supposed to be consisted of in the archive, you ought to download your Facebook Photos separately. Not only is this procedure an additional backup, it is likewise a whole lot faster as well as may offer you with more options.
Restore Friends
As mentioned over, you won't have the ability to Restore or move all of your Data and that includes your friends. You have to by hand add friends to your new account. Regrettably, it is not possible export your Facebook friends to a third party account and after that re-import them to a new Facebook account.
Nevertheless, you can import get in touches with from third 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 tiny faster way. Go to your new Facebook account as well as import calls from any type of sustained 3rd party account (CSV data are also supported) by means of the Discover Friends page.
While you could export your Facebook contacts to Yahoo! Mail, it is not be feasible to re-import them to Facebook. And also contacts imported from Facebook will definitely not be consisted of in a Yahoo! CSV file.
I wrote a separate post on the best ways to back up your Facebook contacts. Keep in mind that just contact information of friends that have actually agreed to have their e-mail address included in details downloads can be imported right into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Right here comes the big disappointment. There is no chance to submit 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 3rd party devices. Right now, the archive simply works as a personal backup, absolutely nothing even more.
So just what are your alternatives? You can 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 applications, by hand re-do all your individual Settings, including basic account and privacy Settings, e.g. protect your Facebook account, include trusted get in touches with, or conceal your personal Settings. I wish I had good news, but as I said before, you can not auto-merge 2 accounts or Restore Data, so you essentially go back to square one.
What You Will certainly Lose
You will certainly lose a whole lot! Your entire Timeline as well as News Feed history will be gone, consisting of messages or photos you were identified in, areas you checked out, all the Likes you issued or received, or teams you were a member of, all your account as well as personal privacy Settings, and also any other records you built up over time. Your photos and friends are really all you can take with you, whatever else has to be re-created manually.
Shut off or Close Your Old Facebook Account.
If you choose 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. Otherwise you will certainly lose access to them.
As soon as you have looked after admin functions, have downloaded all your Data, as well as make certain you intend to completely eliminate your account, log right into the Facebook account you want to shut, and also see the Erase My Account page to begin the procedure. We have previously clarified How you can Properly Shut Your Facebook Account.
Conclusion
Facebook permits you to Download an archive of your account. However, there is no coordinating system in place to recover your Data, needs to the account obtain compromised. Facebook never intended to supply a restore feature; instead they were legally required to offer a means for individuals to download their Data. Consequently, users are entrusted to just half-baked remedies or awkward workarounds, should they desire to merge or move accounts.
What would certainly bother you most if you needed to transfer to a brand-new Facebook account?