How to Merge Two Facebook Accounts Into One
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Alfian Adi Saputra
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Tuesday, October 1, 2019
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Merge Facebook Accounts
While Facebook does not use a way to auto-merge all your friends, pictures, status updates, check-ins or various other info, you could by hand merge parts of your accounts. All it takes is a little prep work and also patience. Unfortunately, you won't be able to migrate or re-create all your Data.
How To Merge Two Facebook Accounts Into One
Bulk Download Data
As a primary step I suggest to bulk download your Facebook Data, a treatment I have defined formerly. This procedure can spend some time as well as the archive will work as a very little backup, must you determine to shut off or remove your account. It will not be of terrific aid in recovering any type of Data, though.
Quickly, go to your General Account Settings as well as click Download a copy of your Facebook Data near the bottom.
This will lead you to a web page where you could download your info and get a duplicate of just what you have actually shared on Facebook.
Currently do start your archive on this first page. On top of that discover where it says You can also Download a broadened archive ... and click the corresponding web link. This will lead 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 require perseverance. Depending on exactly how big your primary as well as your expanded archive are as well as the amount of other archives remain in the queue, this can take a while. As well as with that said I mean a few hrs.
Note that you need to Download both archives, to get a full backup of your account!
When your archive is readily available for download, this is what the page will certainly resemble.
Although your own pictures are supposed to be consisted of in the archive, you need to download your Facebook Photos individually. Not only is this procedure another back-up, it is also a whole lot faster and could offer you with more choices.
Restore Friends
As stated above, you won't have the ability to Restore or move all of your Data and that includes your friends. You should by hand include friends to your new account. Regrettably, it is not feasible export your Facebook friends to a third party account then re-import them to a brand-new Facebook account.
However, you can import contacts from third party accounts such as Skype or Gmail. So if you have call information of a lot of your friends on accounts outside of Facebook, you can take a little faster way. Most likely to your brand-new Facebook account and import calls from any type of sustained third party account (CSV data are likewise supported) through the Find Friends page.
While you can export your Facebook contacts to Yahoo! Mail, it is not be feasible to re-import them to Facebook. And get in touches with imported from Facebook will absolutely not be included in a Yahoo! CSV file.
I wrote a different write-up on the best ways to back up your Facebook get in touches with. Note that just call information of friends that have actually consented to have their email address consisted of in info downloads can be imported into your Yahoo! account.
Restore Account Data
Right here comes the large disappointment. There is no way to submit or otherwise import your archive to Restore or move Data from your old Facebook account to your new one. Whatever you wish to Restore, you need to do it (semi-) manually or utilize third party tools. Now, the archive simply acts as an individual back-up, nothing even more.
So what are your alternatives? You could re-add your old friends as shown above, re-upload photos you downloaded from your old account, re-tag your friends in your images, re-join groups you were a member of, re-add Facebook applications, by hand re-do all your individual Settings, including basic account and also personal privacy Settings, e.g. safeguard your Facebook account, include trusted get in touches with, or hide your individual Settings. I want I had great news, but as I stated before, you could not auto-merge two accounts or Restore Data, so you basically start from scratch.
What You Will certainly Shed
You will certainly lose a great deal! Your entire Timeline and also Information Feed history will certainly be gone, including posts or images you were labelled in, locations you explored, all the Sorts you provided or obtained, or groups you belonged to, all your account and privacy Settings, as well as any other documents you accumulated with time. Your images as well as friends are truly all you can take with you, everything else has to be re-created by hand.
Deactivate or Close Your Old Facebook Account.
If you make a decision to shut off or close your old Facebook account, make certain to add your new account as an admin to any type of Teams or Pages you handle. Or else you will lose accessibility to them.
Once you have actually taken care of admin functions, have actually downloaded and install all your Data, as well as make sure you want to completely remove your account, log into the Facebook account you intend to shut, as well as visit the Erase My Account web page to kick off the procedure. We have previously explained Ways to Appropriately Close Your Facebook Account.
Verdict
Facebook enables you to Download an archive of your account. Nevertheless, there is no matching system in position to recover your Data, should the account get jeopardized. Facebook never ever intended to supply a bring back feature; rather they were lawfully forced to offer a way for individuals to download their Data. Consequently, individuals are left with just half-baked solutions or unpleasant workarounds, need to they want to merge or relocate accounts.
Just what would trouble you most if you had to move to a new Facebook account?