How to Merge Two Facebook Accounts
By
Herman Syah
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Friday, November 1, 2019
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Merge Facebook Accounts
While Facebook does not supply a way to auto-merge all your friends, photos, status updates, check-ins or various other details, you could by hand merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little prep work and persistence. However, you won't be able to migrate or re-create all of your Data.
How To Merge Two Facebook Accounts
Bulk Download Data
As an initial step I suggest to bulk download your Facebook Data, a procedure I have defined formerly. This procedure could spend some time and also the archive will certainly work as a very little backup, ought to you choose to deactivate or remove your account. It will not be of wonderful assistance in bring back any kind of Data, though.
Quickly, 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 and also get a duplicate of exactly what you have actually shared on Facebook.
Currently do start your archive on this first page. In addition discover where it says You can likewise Download a broadened archive ... and click the respective web link. This will guide you to the Expanded Archive Download page where you will be asked to re-enter your password.
Currently here is where you will require persistence. Depending on exactly how huge your major as well as your increased archive are and also how many various other archives remain in the line, this could take some time. And with that I suggest a number of hours.
Keep in mind that you must Download both archives, to obtain a complete back-up of your account!
When your archive is readily available for download, this is what the page will appear like.
Although your own images are meant to be included in the archive, you should download your Facebook Photos individually. Not only is this treatment another back-up, it is likewise a lot faster and also could offer you with more choices.
Restore Friends
As pointed out over, you won't have the ability to Restore or move all of your Data which includes your friends. You need to manually add friends to your brand-new account. However, it is not possible export your Facebook friends to a 3rd party account and after that re-import them to a new Facebook account.
Nonetheless, you can import calls from 3rd party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have contact details of the majority of your friends on accounts outside of Facebook, you could take a tiny faster way. Go to your new Facebook account and also import calls from any kind of sustained third party account (CSV documents are likewise sustained) using the Find Friends page.
While you could export your Facebook calls to Yahoo! Mail, it is not be possible to re-import them to Facebook. And also contacts imported from Facebook will absolutely not be included in a Yahoo! CSV file.
I composed a different short article on ways to back up your Facebook calls. Keep in mind that just get in touch with info of friends who have agreed to have their email address consisted of in details downloads can be imported right into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Below comes the big letdown. There is no other way to upload 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-) manually or use third party tools. Right now, the archive just functions as an individual back-up, nothing even more.
So what are your alternatives? You can re-add your old friends as revealed over, re-upload images you downloaded from your old account, re-tag your friends in your photos, re-join groups you were a member of, re-add Facebook applications, by hand re-do all your individual Settings, including general account as well as personal privacy Settings, e.g. secure your Facebook account, include trusted contacts, or conceal your individual Settings. I want I had excellent information, however as I said in the past, you can not auto-merge two accounts or Restore Data, so you basically start from scratch.
What You Will Shed
You will certainly lose a whole lot! Your whole Timeline and Information Feed background will certainly be gone, consisting of posts or images you were identified in, areas you checked into, all the Likes you issued or obtained, or groups you were a member of, all your account as well as privacy Settings, and any other documents you accumulated over time. Your images as well as friends are really all you can take with you, every little thing else has to be re-created by hand.
Shut down or Shut Your Old Facebook Account.
If you make a decision to shut down or close your old Facebook account, be sure to add your new account as an admin to any Teams or Pages you handle. Or else you will certainly shed accessibility to them.
Once you have actually taken care of admin roles, have downloaded and install all your Data, as well as are sure you want to completely remove your account, log right into the Facebook account you want to close, and visit the Remove My Account web page to start the process. We have actually previously discussed Ways to Appropriately Close Your Facebook Account.
Conclusion
Facebook permits you to Download an archive of your account. However, there is no matching system in position to recover your Data, must the account obtain endangered. Facebook never intended to offer a bring back attribute; instead they were legally forced to provide a means for individuals to download their Data. Consequently, individuals are left with nothing but half-baked services or unpleasant workarounds, must they desire to merge or relocate accounts.
Exactly what would trouble you most if you had to move to a brand-new Facebook account?