Combine Two Facebook Accounts
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Alfian Adi Saputra
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Saturday, October 6, 2018
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Merge Facebook Accounts
While Facebook does not provide a way to auto-merge all your friends, photos, status updates, check-ins or other details, you can manually merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little preparation as well as patience. Sadly, you will not be able to move or re-create all your Data.
Combine Two Facebook Accounts
Bulk Download Data
As a first step I recommend to mass download your Facebook Data, a procedure I have defined previously. This procedure could spend some time and the archive will certainly function as a very little backup, need to you determine to shut off or erase your account. It will not be of terrific aid in recovering any kind of Data, though.
Briefly, go to your General Account Settings and also click Download a copy of your Facebook Data near the bottom.
This will lead you to a page where you can download your information and also obtain a duplicate of just what you have actually shared on Facebook.
Now do start your archive on this initial web page. On top of that find where it states You can likewise Download an expanded archive ... and also click the particular link. This will certainly assist you to the Expanded Archive Download page where you will be asked to re-enter your password.
Now here is where you will certainly require perseverance. Depending upon how large your major and your expanded archive are as well as the number of various other archives are in the line, this can take some time. And with that said I imply a number of hours.
Keep in mind that you need to Download both archives, to receive a complete backup of your account!
When your archive is readily available for download, this is exactly what the web page will appear like.
Although your own images are intended to be consisted of in the archive, you should download your Facebook Photos separately. Not only is this treatment another back-up, it is likewise a great deal faster and could supply you with even more options.
Restore Friends
As discussed over, you won't have the ability to Restore or migrate every one of your Data which includes your friends. You should manually include friends to your new account. Sadly, it is not feasible export your Facebook friends to a 3rd party account then re-import them to a new Facebook account.
Nevertheless, you could import contacts from 3rd 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 little shortcut. Go to your new Facebook account and also import get in touches with from any kind of sustained third party account (CSV data are additionally sustained) by means of the Discover Friends page.
While you can 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 certainly not be consisted of in a Yahoo! CSV file.
I composed a different write-up on ways to back up your Facebook get in touches with. Keep in mind that only get in touch with info of friends that have actually accepted have their e-mail address included in information downloads can be imported right into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Below comes the big disappointment. There is no chance to submit or otherwise import your archive to Restore or move Data from your old Facebook account to your brand-new one. Whatever you wish to Restore, you need to do it (semi-) by hand or utilize 3rd party devices. Right now, the archive just functions as a personal backup, nothing even more.
So just what are your choices? You can re-add your old friends as revealed over, re-upload photos you downloaded from your old account, re-tag your friends in your images, re-join teams you were a member of, re-add Facebook apps, by hand re-do all your personal Settings, including general account and personal privacy Settings, e.g. secure your Facebook account, add trusted get in touches with, or conceal your individual Settings. I want I had excellent information, however as I said before, you could not auto-merge 2 accounts or Restore Data, so you essentially go back to square one.
What You Will Shed
You will lose a great deal! Your entire Timeline and News Feed history will certainly be gone, consisting of articles or photos you were labelled in, locations you checked into, all the Likes you provided or received, or groups you belonged to, all your account and also personal privacy Settings, and any other records you built up with time. Your pictures and also friends are actually all you could take with you, every little thing else needs to be re-created manually.
Shut off or Close Your Old Facebook Account.
If you make a decision to shut off or shut your old Facebook account, make sure to add your brand-new account as an admin to any type of Teams or Pages you manage. Or else you will lose access to them.
When you have dealt with admin roles, have downloaded all your Data, and also make sure you intend to totally eliminate your account, log right into the Facebook account you wish to close, as well as visit the Delete My Account web page to begin the process. We have actually formerly described Ways to Effectively Close Your Facebook Account.
Final thought
Facebook enables you to Download an archive of your account. Nevertheless, there is no coordinating system in place to restore your Data, must the account get endangered. Facebook never meant to provide a restore feature; rather they were legitimately forced to use a method for users to download their Data. Therefore, individuals are entrusted just half-baked options or awkward workarounds, should they desire to merge or move accounts.
Exactly what would trouble you most if you had to relocate to a brand-new Facebook account?