How to Combine Facebook Accounts Updated 2019
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Thursday, January 24, 2019
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Merge Facebook Accounts
While Facebook does not supply a means to auto-merge all your friends, pictures, status updates, check-ins or other information, you can manually merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little prep work and also patience. Regrettably, you won't have the ability to migrate or re-create all your Data.
How To Combine Facebook Accounts
Bulk Download Data
As an initial step I recommend to bulk download your Facebook Data, a treatment I have defined previously. This procedure could take some time and the archive will act as a marginal back-up, should you make a decision to shut down or delete your account. It won't be of great help in restoring any kind of Data, though.
Briefly, most likely to your General Account Settings and also click Download a copy of your Facebook Data at the bottom.
This will lead you to a page where you can download your info and also obtain a duplicate of exactly what you have actually shared on Facebook.
Currently do start your archive on this very first web page. In addition find where it claims You could also Download an increased archive ... and also click the respective link. This will assist you to the Expanded Archive Download page where you will certainly be asked to re-enter your password.
Currently here is where you will certainly require patience. Relying on how big your major and your broadened archive are and also the amount of other archives are in the queue, this could take some time. And also with that said I imply a few hours.
Keep in mind that you must Download both archives, to receive a complete backup of your account!
As soon as your archive is offered for download, this is what the page will look like.
Although your own images are intended to be included in the archive, you ought to download your Facebook Photos separately. Not only is this treatment one more back-up, it is also a lot faster and may provide you with more alternatives.
Restore Friends
As discussed over, you will not be able to Restore or migrate all your Data which includes your friends. You have to manually include friends to your brand-new account. Unfortunately, it is not feasible export your Facebook friends to a third party account and afterwards re-import them to a brand-new Facebook account.
Nonetheless, you can import get in touches with from 3rd party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have call details of most of your friends on accounts outside of Facebook, you can take a small faster way. Go to your brand-new Facebook account and import get in touches with from any type of supported third party account (CSV files are additionally sustained) by means of the Find Friends web page.
While you could export your Facebook calls to Yahoo! Mail, it is not be feasible to re-import them to Facebook. And contacts imported from Facebook will absolutely not be included in a Yahoo! CSV documents.
I created a separate article on how you can back up your Facebook calls. Keep in mind that only call details of friends that have consented to have their email address consisted of in information downloads can be imported right into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Below comes the huge disappointment. There is no other way 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 use 3rd party devices. Today, the archive just acts as an individual back-up, absolutely nothing even more.
So what are your choices? You could re-add your old friends as revealed above, re-upload pictures you downloaded from your old account, re-tag your friends in your images, re-join groups you were a member of, re-add Facebook applications, by hand re-do all your individual Settings, including basic account and personal privacy Settings, e.g. protect your Facebook account, include relied on get in touches with, or hide your personal Settings. I wish I had excellent news, yet as I said previously, you can not auto-merge 2 accounts or Restore Data, so you essentially start from scratch.
What You Will certainly Shed
You will certainly lose a great deal! Your whole Timeline and Information Feed background will be gone, including posts or pictures you were tagged in, places you checked out, all the Likes you provided or received, or teams you were a member of, all your account as well as personal privacy Settings, and other records you gathered over time. Your pictures and friends are actually all you could take with you, every little thing else has to be re-created by hand.
Shut off or Close Your Old Facebook Account.
If you decide to shut off or close your old Facebook account, make certain to add your brand-new account as an admin to any kind of Teams or Pages you manage. Otherwise you will certainly shed access to them.
Once you have taken care of admin duties, have downloaded and install all your Data, and make sure you wish to completely eliminate your account, log into the Facebook account you want to close, as well as go to the Delete My Account web page to begin the process. We have actually formerly clarified How you can Effectively Shut Your Facebook Account.
Verdict
Facebook enables you to Download an archive of your account. Nevertheless, there is no coordinating system in place to restore your Data, needs to the account obtain compromised. Facebook never ever meant to offer a recover attribute; instead they were lawfully required to use a way for customers to download their Data. Consequently, customers are left with only half-baked options or unpleasant workarounds, should they want to merge or move accounts.
What would certainly bother you most if you had to transfer to a new Facebook account?