How to Merge 2 Facebook Accounts Updated 2019
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Tuesday, March 12, 2019
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Merge Facebook Accounts
While Facebook does not offer a way to auto-merge all your friends, photos, status updates, check-ins or other info, you could by hand merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little preparation as well as patience. Sadly, you won't be able to migrate or re-create all your Data.
How To Merge 2 Facebook Accounts
Bulk Download Data
As a first step I suggest to mass download your Facebook Data, a procedure I have defined previously. This treatment could take a while and also the archive will certainly function as a minimal backup, ought to you make a decision to deactivate or delete your account. It will not be of great assistance in restoring any kind of Data, however.
Briefly, go to your General Account Settings and click Download a copy of your Facebook Data at the bottom.
This will lead you to a web page where you could download your info as well as get a duplicate of just what you have shared on Facebook.
Now do start your archive on this initial page. Additionally find where it states You could likewise Download an expanded archive ... and also click the particular web link. This will certainly lead you to the Expanded Archive Download web page where you will certainly be asked to re-enter your password.
Currently below is where you will require perseverance. Depending upon just how big your main as well as your expanded archive are as well as how many other archives remain in the line up, this can take a while. And with that I indicate a few hrs.
Note that you have to Download both archives, to receive a complete back-up of your account!
As soon as your archive is offered for download, this is just what the page will certainly resemble.
Although your personal images are expected to be consisted of in the archive, you need to download your Facebook Photos independently. Not only is this procedure one more backup, it is likewise a lot faster and might offer you with even more choices.
Restore Friends
As discussed above, you won't be able to Restore or migrate all of your Data which includes your friends. You need to by hand add friends to your brand-new account. However, it is not possible export your Facebook friends to a 3rd party account and afterwards re-import them to a new Facebook account.
Nonetheless, you could import calls from third party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have get in touch with details of most of your friends on accounts outside of Facebook, you could take a small shortcut. Most likely to your brand-new Facebook account as well as import calls from any type of supported third party account (CSV documents are likewise sustained) via the Find Friends web 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. As well as calls imported from Facebook will definitely not be included in a Yahoo! CSV data.
I composed a separate write-up on how to back up your Facebook calls. Note that only get in touch with info of friends who have accepted have their e-mail address consisted of in details downloads can be imported into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Below comes the big letdown. There is no chance to submit or otherwise import your archive to Restore or move Data from your old Facebook account to your new one. Whatever you intend to Restore, you have to do it (semi-) manually or make use of third party tools. Now, the archive just works as an individual backup, nothing even more.
So just what are your options? You can re-add your old friends as revealed over, re-upload images you downloaded and install from your old account, re-tag your friends in your photos, re-join groups you were a member of, re-add Facebook applications, manually re-do all your personal 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 desire I had good information, but as I claimed in the past, you could not auto-merge two accounts or Restore Data, so you basically start from scratch.
What You Will certainly Lose
You will certainly lose a lot! Your entire Timeline and also News Feed background will be gone, including articles or photos you were labelled in, areas you looked into, all the Sorts you released or received, or groups you belonged to, all your account as well as personal privacy Settings, and also other documents you accumulated with time. Your photos and also friends are truly all you can take with you, every little thing else needs to be re-created by hand.
Deactivate or Shut Your Old Facebook Account.
If you decide to deactivate or close your old Facebook account, make sure to add your brand-new account as an admin to any Groups or Pages you manage. Or else you will shed access to them.
Once you have actually looked after admin functions, have downloaded and install all your Data, and are sure you want to entirely remove your account, log right into the Facebook account you intend to close, as well as check out the Remove My Account page to begin the procedure. We have formerly described How To Correctly Close Your Facebook Account.
Verdict
Facebook enables you to Download an archive of your account. Nonetheless, there is no coordinating system in place to restore your Data, should the account obtain endangered. Facebook never ever intended to offer a restore function; rather they were lawfully compelled to use a method for customers to download their Data. Therefore, individuals are entrusted to just half-baked remedies or uncomfortable workarounds, should they prefer to merge or move accounts.
Just what would certainly bother you most if you had to relocate to a brand-new Facebook account?