How to Merge My Facebook Accounts Updated 2019
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Thursday, October 17, 2019
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Merge Facebook Accounts
While Facebook does not offer a method 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 preparation as well as patience. However, you will not have the ability to migrate or re-create all of your Data.
How To Merge My Facebook Accounts
Mass Download Data
As a first step I recommend to mass download your Facebook Data, a procedure I have actually defined previously. This treatment could spend some time as well as the archive will work as a marginal backup, need to you determine to shut down or remove your account. It won't be of fantastic assistance in recovering any type of Data, though.
Quickly, 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 details and also get a duplicate of just what you have shared on Facebook.
Now do begin your archive on this very first web page. In addition locate where it claims You could additionally Download an increased archive ... as well as click the corresponding web link. This will direct you to the Expanded Archive Download web page where you will certainly be asked to re-enter your password.
Now here is where you will certainly need patience. Relying on how large your main and also your increased archive are as well as the number of other archives remain in the line up, this can spend some time. And keeping that I indicate a number of hrs.
Keep in mind that you need to Download both archives, to obtain a full backup of your account!
Once your archive is offered for download, this is exactly what the web page will appear like.
Although your own photos are supposed to be consisted of in the archive, you must download your Facebook Photos independently. Not just is this treatment one more backup, it is additionally a lot faster as well as might give you with even more choices.
Restore Friends
As mentioned above, you will not have the ability to Restore or migrate all of your Data and that includes your friends. You should by hand add friends to your new account. Sadly, it is not possible export your Facebook friends to a third party account then re-import them to a brand-new Facebook account.
Nonetheless, you could import calls from third 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 tiny faster way. Most likely to your brand-new Facebook account as well as import contacts from any kind of sustained 3rd party account (CSV data are also supported) by means of the Locate Friends page.
While you could export your Facebook get in touches with to Yahoo! Mail, it is not be feasible to re-import them to Facebook. And contacts imported from Facebook will definitely not be consisted of in a Yahoo! CSV data.
I created a different article on the best ways to back up your Facebook calls. Note that only contact details of friends that have consented to have their email address consisted of in info downloads can be imported right into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Below comes the large disappointment. There is no way to submit or otherwise import your archive to Restore or move 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 3rd party tools. Right now, the archive just functions as a personal backup, nothing even more.
So what are your alternatives? You can re-add your old friends as revealed above, re-upload images you downloaded from your old account, re-tag your friends in your photos, re-join groups you belonged to, re-add Facebook apps, manually re-do all your individual Settings, consisting of basic account as well as privacy Settings, e.g. safeguard your Facebook account, add trusted calls, or conceal your personal Settings. I wish I had great information, however as I stated in the past, you could not auto-merge 2 accounts or Restore Data, so you essentially go back to square one.
What You Will Lose
You will certainly lose a whole lot! Your whole Timeline and Information Feed history will certainly be gone, consisting of posts or images you were tagged in, locations you explored, all the Likes you provided or got, or groups you were a member of, all your account as well as privacy Settings, and other documents you accumulated gradually. Your pictures and also friends are truly all you can take with you, everything else has to be re-created manually.
Shut off or Close Your Old Facebook Account.
If you make a decision to deactivate or close your old Facebook account, be sure to include your brand-new account as an admin to any type of Teams or Pages you handle. Or else you will certainly shed accessibility to them.
As soon as you have actually taken care of admin roles, have actually downloaded all your Data, and also make certain you intend to entirely remove your account, log right into the Facebook account you wish to close, and go to the Erase My Account page to kick off the process. We have formerly discussed How To Correctly Close Your Facebook Account.
Final thought
Facebook allows you to Download an archive of your account. However, there is no matching system in place to recover your Data, must the account obtain endangered. Facebook never meant to give a restore attribute; rather they were lawfully required to use a way for customers to download their Data. Because of this, users are left with only half-baked options or awkward workarounds, should they desire to merge or move accounts.
What would certainly trouble you most if you needed to transfer to a new Facebook account?