How to Merge 2 Facebook Accounts
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Alfian Adi Saputra
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Friday, October 12, 2018
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Merge Facebook Accounts
While Facebook does not offer a means to auto-merge all your friends, photos, standing updates, check-ins or other information, you can by hand merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little preparation and also patience. Sadly, you won't be able to move or re-create every one of your Data.
How To Merge 2 Facebook Accounts
Mass Download Data
As a very first step I advise to mass download your Facebook Data, a treatment I have defined formerly. This procedure can spend some time and also the archive will certainly act as a minimal back-up, ought to you choose to shut off or delete your account. It will not be of terrific help in restoring any type of Data, however.
Quickly, most likely 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 exactly what you have shared on Facebook.
Now do begin your archive on this initial web page. Additionally locate where it says You can likewise Download an expanded archive ... and 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. Depending upon how huge your main and your broadened archive are as well as how many various other archives are in the line, this can spend some time. As well as keeping that I suggest a couple of hours.
Keep in mind that you must Download both archives, to obtain a complete back-up of your account!
Once your archive is offered for download, this is just what the web page will resemble.
Although your own images are meant to be included in the archive, you need to download your Facebook Photos separately. Not just is this treatment one more backup, it is likewise a lot faster and could offer you with even more choices.
Restore Friends
As discussed above, you will not be able to Restore or migrate all of your Data and that includes your friends. You need to by hand include 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 brand-new Facebook account.
However, you can import contacts from 3rd party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have call information of the majority of your friends on accounts outside of Facebook, you could take a tiny faster way. Most likely to your new Facebook account as well as import calls from any kind of supported third party account (CSV data are additionally supported) via the Discover 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 also get in touches with imported from Facebook will definitely not be included in a Yahoo! CSV file.
I created a separate post on how you can support your Facebook contacts. Note that only call info of friends who have agreed to have their e-mail address consisted of in details downloads can be imported into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Right here comes the big disappointment. There is no other way to post 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 need to do it (semi-) manually or make use of 3rd party devices. Today, the archive just acts as a personal backup, absolutely nothing even more.
So exactly what are your options? You could re-add your old friends as revealed over, re-upload pictures you downloaded and install from your old account, re-tag your friends in your images, re-join teams you belonged to, re-add Facebook applications, manually re-do all your individual Settings, consisting of basic account as well as personal privacy Settings, e.g. protect your Facebook account, include trusted get in touches with, or conceal your individual Settings. I desire I had great news, yet as I said in the past, you can not auto-merge two accounts or Restore Data, so you essentially start from scratch.
What You Will certainly Shed
You will lose a lot! Your whole Timeline as well as News Feed history will be gone, including posts or images you were marked in, locations you looked into, all the Sorts you provided or got, or groups you belonged to, all your account as well as privacy Settings, and any other records you gathered over time. Your images as well as friends are actually all you could take with you, everything else needs to be re-created by hand.
Shut down or Close Your Old Facebook Account.
If you determine to shut off or close your old Facebook account, make sure to add your new account as an admin to any Groups or Pages you manage. Or else you will certainly shed access to them.
As soon as you have actually looked after admin roles, have downloaded all your Data, and make sure you intend to completely remove your account, log right into the Facebook account you wish to shut, and see the Delete My Account web page to start the procedure. We have formerly described How you can Appropriately Shut Your Facebook Account.
Verdict
Facebook allows you to Download an archive of your account. Nevertheless, there is no coordinating system in place to recover your Data, ought to the account obtain jeopardized. Facebook never meant to give a bring back attribute; rather they were legally compelled to provide a way for customers to download their Data. Because of this, customers are left with nothing but half-baked services or awkward workarounds, must they prefer to merge or move accounts.
What would bother you most if you had to transfer to a new Facebook account?