How to Combine Two Facebook Accounts
By
Herman Syah
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Friday, August 2, 2019
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Merge Facebook Accounts
While Facebook does not provide a method to auto-merge all your friends, photos, standing updates, check-ins or other details, you can manually merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little preparation as well as perseverance. Unfortunately, you will not be able to migrate or re-create all of your Data.
How To Combine Two Facebook Accounts
Bulk Download Data
As a first step I recommend to bulk download your Facebook Data, a procedure I have described formerly. This treatment could take some time and also the archive will certainly serve as a minimal backup, must you decide to shut off or delete your account. It won't be of wonderful help in restoring any type of Data, though.
Briefly, most likely to your General Account Settings and click Download a copy of your Facebook Data near the bottom.
This will certainly lead you to a web page where you could download your details and also obtain a duplicate of just what you have actually shared on Facebook.
Currently do start your archive on this first page. Additionally discover where it says You could likewise Download a broadened archive ... as well as click the particular link. This will lead you to the Expanded Archive Download web page where you will be asked to re-enter your password.
Now right here is where you will need persistence. Relying on exactly how large your primary and your broadened archive are as well as the number of other archives remain in the line, this can take a while. And also with that said I indicate a few hours.
Keep in mind that you must Download both archives, to get a full backup of your account!
As soon as your archive is readily available for download, this is what the page will look like.
Although your personal pictures are supposed to be consisted of in the archive, you should download your Facebook Photos individually. Not just is this procedure an additional backup, it is additionally a whole lot faster and also might give you with more options.
Restore Friends
As mentioned over, you won't have the ability to Restore or migrate every one of your Data which includes your friends. You have to manually add friends to your brand-new account. Sadly, it is not possible export your Facebook friends to a 3rd party account and after that 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 contact information of a lot of your friends on accounts outside of Facebook, you can take a small shortcut. Most likely to your new Facebook account as well as import get in touches with from any type of sustained third party account (CSV data are likewise sustained) via the Locate Friends web page.
While you could export your Facebook contacts to Yahoo! Mail, it is not be possible to re-import them to Facebook. And also contacts imported from Facebook will certainly not be consisted of in a Yahoo! CSV file.
I created a different post on how you can back up your Facebook calls. Keep in mind that just get in touch with info of friends that have accepted have their email address consisted of in details downloads can be imported into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Right here comes the huge letdown. There is no other way to submit or otherwise import your archive to Restore or transfer Data from your old Facebook account to your brand-new one. Whatever you wish to Restore, you have to do it (semi-) by hand or use 3rd party devices. Right now, the archive simply serves as an individual back-up, nothing even more.
So just what are your choices? You could re-add your old friends as shown above, re-upload photos you downloaded from your old account, re-tag your friends in your photos, re-join groups you were a member of, re-add Facebook apps, manually re-do all your personal Settings, including basic account and also privacy Settings, e.g. protect your Facebook account, include relied on get in touches with, or conceal your personal Settings. I desire I had good news, however as I said in the past, you could not auto-merge 2 accounts or Restore Data, so you essentially go back to square one.
What You Will Shed
You will shed a great deal! Your entire Timeline and News Feed background will be gone, consisting of posts or pictures you were identified in, areas you checked into, all the Sorts you issued or received, or teams you belonged to, all your account and privacy Settings, as well as any other documents you accumulated over time. Your photos and friends are really all you could take with you, every little thing else has to be re-created manually.
Shut down or Shut Your Old Facebook Account.
If you determine to deactivate or close your old Facebook account, be sure to add your new account as an admin to any kind of Groups or Pages you take care of. Or else you will lose accessibility to them.
Once you have actually looked after admin functions, have downloaded all your Data, and also are sure you wish to completely remove your account, log into the Facebook account you want to shut, as well as check out the Erase My Account web page to start the process. We have actually previously discussed The best ways to Correctly Close Your Facebook Account.
Conclusion
Facebook enables you to Download an archive of your account. Nevertheless, there is no coordinating system in position to recover your Data, should the account get endangered. Facebook never intended to give a recover feature; rather they were legitimately compelled to use a method for customers to download their Data. Therefore, customers are left with only half-baked solutions or uncomfortable workarounds, ought to they want to merge or relocate accounts.
Exactly what would certainly bother you most if you needed to relocate to a brand-new Facebook account?