How to Combine Two Facebook Accounts
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Pusahma satu
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Tuesday, April 2, 2019
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Merge Facebook Accounts
While Facebook does not supply a way to auto-merge all your friends, pictures, status updates, check-ins or various other information, you can manually merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little prep work and persistence. However, you will not be able to move or re-create every one of your Data.
How To Combine Two Facebook Accounts
Mass Download Data
As a first step I advise to mass download your Facebook Data, a procedure I have described formerly. This treatment can spend some time and also the archive will certainly serve as a minimal backup, ought to you determine to shut off or delete your account. It won't be of terrific help in recovering any Data, however.
Quickly, go to your General Account Settings and also click Download a copy of your Facebook Data near the bottom.
This will certainly lead you to a page where you could download your information and obtain a duplicate of just what you have shared on Facebook.
Now do start your archive on this very first web page. Furthermore discover where it states You can also Download an increased archive ... and click the particular link. This will certainly direct you to the Expanded Archive Download web page where you will certainly be asked to re-enter your password.
Currently here is where you will require perseverance. Depending on how big your primary and also your broadened archive are and also how many various other archives remain in the queue, this could take some time. And with that said I imply a couple of hours.
Note that you need to Download both archives, to obtain a full backup of your account!
When your archive is available for download, this is exactly what the web page will look like.
Although your personal images are meant to be consisted of in the archive, you must download your Facebook Photos independently. Not just is this treatment another back-up, it is likewise a whole lot faster and also may provide you with more options.
Restore Friends
As mentioned over, you won't be able to Restore or migrate all of your Data which includes your friends. You should manually add friends to your brand-new account. Unfortunately, it is not feasible export your Facebook friends to a 3rd party account and afterwards re-import them to a new Facebook account.
Nevertheless, you can import calls from 3rd party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have call information of most of your friends on accounts beyond Facebook, you could take a small shortcut. Go to your brand-new Facebook account as well as import get in touches with from any type of sustained third party account (CSV files are likewise supported) using the Locate Friends web page.
While you could export your Facebook get in touches with to Yahoo! Mail, it is not be possible to re-import them to Facebook. And also calls imported from Facebook will absolutely not be included in a Yahoo! CSV data.
I created a separate post on how to back up your Facebook get in touches with. Note that just contact info of friends who have actually agreed to have their email address consisted of in information downloads can be imported right into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Here comes the big letdown. There is no chance to upload or otherwise import your archive to Restore or transfer Data from your old Facebook account to your brand-new one. Whatever you wish to Restore, you need to do it (semi-) manually or utilize third party tools. Today, the archive merely works as an individual back-up, nothing even more.
So just what are your alternatives? You can re-add your old friends as shown over, re-upload images 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, manually re-do all your personal Settings, including basic account and also privacy Settings, e.g. protect your Facebook account, include relied on calls, or hide your individual Settings. I wish I had good information, yet as I stated previously, you can not auto-merge two accounts or Restore Data, so you essentially go back to square one.
What You Will Lose
You will certainly lose a great deal! Your whole Timeline and Information Feed background will be gone, including blog posts or images you were marked in, locations you checked into, all the Likes you released or obtained, or groups you belonged to, all your account and personal privacy Settings, and also other documents you gathered in time. Your images and also friends are actually all you could take with you, whatever else needs to be re-created manually.
Shut off or Close Your Old Facebook Account.
If you choose to deactivate or shut your old Facebook account, make certain to add your brand-new account as an admin to any type of Teams or Pages you handle. Otherwise you will shed accessibility to them.
When you have actually dealt with admin duties, have actually downloaded all your Data, as well as make sure you want to totally eliminate your account, log right into the Facebook account you wish to shut, as well as check out the Delete My Account web page to start the process. We have previously clarified 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 matching system in place to recover your Data, should the account obtain jeopardized. Facebook never ever planned to supply a recover function; instead they were lawfully required to supply a way for individuals to download their Data. Therefore, individuals are left with only half-baked services or awkward workarounds, ought to they desire to merge or move accounts.
What would certainly bother you most if you needed to relocate to a brand-new Facebook account?