How to Merge 2 Facebook Accounts
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Alfian Adi Saputra
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Friday, March 15, 2019
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Merge Facebook Accounts
While Facebook does not use a method to auto-merge all your friends, images, status updates, check-ins or other info, you can manually merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little preparation and also persistence. However, you will not be able to move or re-create every one of your Data.
How To Merge 2 Facebook Accounts
Mass Download Data
As a first step I recommend to bulk download your Facebook Data, a treatment I have actually explained previously. This treatment could take some time and the archive will certainly work as a minimal backup, ought to you decide to shut off or erase your account. It will not be of excellent aid in bring back any 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 web page where you could download your details and also obtain a duplicate of what you have shared on Facebook.
Now do begin your archive on this very first web page. In addition locate where it states You can likewise Download an increased archive ... and also click the respective link. This will direct you to the Expanded Archive Download page where you will certainly be asked to re-enter your password.
Now below is where you will certainly need perseverance. Depending on exactly how big your primary and your increased archive are and how many other archives are in the line, this can spend some time. And also with that said I suggest a couple of hrs.
Keep in mind that you have to Download both archives, to obtain a full backup of your account!
As soon as your archive is readily available for download, this is exactly what the web page will certainly resemble.
Although your personal pictures are supposed to be consisted of in the archive, you should download your Facebook Photos individually. Not just is this treatment an additional back-up, it is additionally a lot faster and could provide you with more options.
Restore Friends
As mentioned over, you won't have the ability to Restore or migrate all your Data which includes your friends. You need to manually add friends to your new account. Sadly, it is not feasible export your Facebook friends to a third party account and after that re-import them to a brand-new Facebook account.
However, you can import get in touches with from 3rd party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have get in touch with details of a lot of your friends on accounts outside of Facebook, you can take a small faster way. Most likely to your new Facebook account and also import get in touches with from any type of supported 3rd party account (CSV files are additionally supported) using the Locate Friends web page.
While you could export your Facebook contacts to Yahoo! Mail, it is not be feasible to re-import them to Facebook. And also calls imported from Facebook will certainly not be consisted of in a Yahoo! CSV file.
I composed a different short article on the best ways to back up your Facebook calls. Note that just contact details of friends who have actually agreed to have their email address included in details downloads can be imported right into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Here comes the huge letdown. There is no chance to submit or otherwise import your archive to Restore or transfer Data from your old Facebook account to your new one. Whatever you wish to Restore, you have to do it (semi-) manually or make use of 3rd party devices. Today, the archive just functions as a personal back-up, absolutely nothing more.
So just what are your alternatives? You could re-add your old friends as revealed above, re-upload pictures you downloaded and install from your old account, re-tag your friends in your images, re-join teams you were a member of, re-add Facebook apps, 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 calls, or hide your individual Settings. I wish I had great information, yet as I said previously, you can not auto-merge 2 accounts or Restore Data, so you basically go back to square one.
What You Will Lose
You will certainly lose a lot! Your whole Timeline and also News Feed background will certainly be gone, consisting of posts or pictures you were labelled in, locations you looked into, all the Likes you issued or received, or teams you were a member of, all your account and personal privacy Settings, as well as other records you accumulated in time. Your pictures as well as friends are really all you can take with you, whatever else has to be re-created by hand.
Deactivate or Close Your Old Facebook Account.
If you make a decision to deactivate or shut your old Facebook account, make certain to include your new account as an admin to any type of Groups or Pages you take care of. Otherwise you will lose accessibility to them.
When you have actually cared for admin duties, have downloaded all your Data, and make sure you want to totally eliminate your account, log right into the Facebook account you want to close, as well as see the Remove My Account web page to begin the process. We have formerly described The best ways to Properly Shut Your Facebook Account.
Final thought
Facebook enables you to Download an archive of your account. However, there is no coordinating system in place to recover your Data, should the account get endangered. Facebook never ever meant to provide a restore attribute; instead they were lawfully compelled to use a way for users to download their Data. As a result, customers are left with only half-baked solutions or uncomfortable workarounds, must they desire to merge or relocate accounts.
Just what would certainly bother you most if you needed to move to a new Facebook account?