How to Merge Two Facebook Accounts Into One
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Thursday, September 13, 2018
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Merge Facebook Accounts
While Facebook does not supply a method to auto-merge all your friends, images, status updates, check-ins or various other info, you could by hand merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little prep work as well as perseverance. Regrettably, you won't have the ability to migrate or re-create all your Data.
How To Merge Two Facebook Accounts Into One
Mass Download Data
As a primary step I recommend to mass download your Facebook Data, a procedure I have defined formerly. This treatment can take a while as well as the archive will act as a very little backup, should you choose to deactivate or erase your account. It won't be of terrific help in bring back any Data, however.
Briefly, go to your General Account Settings as well as click Download a copy of your Facebook Data near the bottom.
This will lead you to a page where you can download your information and also obtain a duplicate of just what you have actually shared on Facebook.
Now do begin your archive on this very first web page. On top of that find where it claims You can likewise Download an increased archive ... and click the corresponding web link. This will lead you to the Expanded Archive Download web page where you will be asked to re-enter your password.
Currently right here is where you will certainly require perseverance. Depending on exactly how large your major and your increased archive are and how many various other archives are in the queue, this could take some time. And keeping that I suggest a few hours.
Keep in mind that you need to Download both archives, to receive a complete back-up of your account!
When your archive is available for download, this is just what the web page will appear like.
Although your own images are meant to be consisted of in the archive, you ought to download your Facebook Photos separately. Not just is this procedure one more backup, it is additionally a lot faster as well as could offer you with more alternatives.
Restore Friends
As pointed out over, you will not have the ability to Restore or move every one of your Data which includes your friends. You need to manually include friends to your brand-new account. Sadly, it is not possible export your Facebook friends to a 3rd party account then re-import them to a brand-new Facebook account.
Nevertheless, you can import get in touches with from 3rd party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have call details of the majority of your friends on accounts beyond Facebook, you could take a small shortcut. Go to your brand-new Facebook account and import calls from any sustained 3rd party account (CSV documents are likewise supported) by means of the Discover Friends web page.
While you could export your Facebook contacts to Yahoo! Mail, it is not be feasible to re-import them to Facebook. And calls imported from Facebook will definitely not be consisted of in a Yahoo! CSV data.
I wrote a different short article on how you can support your Facebook contacts. Note that only contact information of friends that have actually accepted have their e-mail address consisted of in details downloads can be imported right into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Below comes the large disappointment. There is no way to publish or otherwise import your archive to Restore or transfer Data from your old Facebook account to your new one. Whatever you wish to Restore, you need to do it (semi-) by hand or make use of third party tools. Today, the archive just functions as a personal backup, nothing more.
So what are your options? You could re-add your old friends as revealed above, re-upload photos you downloaded and install from your old account, re-tag your friends in your images, re-join teams you belonged to, re-add Facebook apps, manually re-do all your personal Settings, including general account as well as personal privacy Settings, e.g. protect your Facebook account, include trusted contacts, or conceal your personal Settings. I want I had great information, yet as I said in the past, you can not auto-merge 2 accounts or Restore Data, so you basically start from scratch.
What You Will Shed
You will certainly shed a great deal! Your entire Timeline as well as News Feed background will certainly be gone, consisting of posts or photos you were identified in, places you looked into, all the Likes you released or received, or groups you were a member of, all your account and also personal privacy Settings, and also other documents you collected with time. Your photos as well as friends are actually all you can take with you, every little thing else has to be re-created by hand.
Deactivate or Shut Your Old Facebook Account.
If you choose to deactivate or shut your old Facebook account, be sure to add your new account as an admin to any type of Teams or Pages you take care of. Or else you will certainly shed access to them.
As soon as you have actually dealt with admin duties, have downloaded all your Data, and make sure you want to entirely remove your account, log into the Facebook account you want to close, and also check out the Remove My Account web page to begin the procedure. We have actually previously described Ways to Properly Close Your Facebook Account.
Conclusion
Facebook enables you to Download an archive of your account. However, there is no coordinating system in place to restore your Data, must the account obtain jeopardized. Facebook never intended to give a restore function; rather they were legally forced to offer a means for users to download their Data. Because of this, customers are left with just half-baked options or uncomfortable workarounds, ought to they desire to merge or move accounts.
What would bother you most if you had to transfer to a new Facebook account?