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How to Make a New Facebook Account

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You can't always wipe the slate clean and start over in real life, but you can certainly do it on Facebook! Sometimes it's easier to just create a new account than to fiddle with privacy settings or clean out your friends list on your current one. This article will show you how to create a new account and dump the old one.

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EditCreating a New Account

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If you have an existing account, you will need to delete it before creating a new one. See Close the Old Account below before proceeding. Otherwise, continue to the next step.
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Go to the Facebook website. If you have an existing account, make sure you are logged out first.
- You will see this signup form:
- Fill it out completely, make sure all the information is accurate, then click the Sign Up button.
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Find your friends. Facebook will next ask you to search your various email accounts for friends. You are welcome to do this at this time, or click on Skip this step at the bottom, and continue with the sign-up process.
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Fill in profile information. Step 2 of the sign-up process is filling out basic profile info: High school, college, and employer. Again, you may choose to fill this out, or skip this step.
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Plug in your mug. Now's your chance to shine to the world! Upload a photo from your computer, or take a photo with your web cam. However you do it, Facebook will take it. Of course, like the other steps, you can choose to skip this as well.
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Your new account is ready! Remember—don't forget to like us!

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EditClose the Old Account

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Download your information. Having a copy of all your information—from our profile info to your friend's list and photos—is never a bad thing to have as a backup. To do this:
- Click the account menu icon (white triangle) at the top right of any Facebook page.
- Choose Account Settings
- Click on Download a copy of your Facebook data
- Click Start My Archive
- This will take a while, especially if you have a lot of photos and are active on Facebook.
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Clean out your existing account. When your archive is complete, empty out all fields that aren't required, and delete. For required fields, use names that are clearly fake (Frondheim Dingleschmidt) or hopelessly general (John Smith).
- If you want to reuse your phone and email information in the new account, change those to something meaningless before you begin the deletion process. Facebook will not let you have multiple accounts with the same information.
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Create a temporary email account. To delete your primary email account, you must first create a new one—Facebook will verify the email address, so you can't just make one up.
- Create a new browser tab (Control-T on a PC, Command-T on a Mac).
- Go to a free email provider, such as Google or Yahoo
- Create a new account. It can be a normal email account that you might want to use for real at some point, or a temporary one you will use once and trash. One advantage of an alternate email account is that you can use it for all spam-generating sites—you never have to check it, so anything that is in it will always be spam!
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Add the new email account to Facebook. In your soon-to-be-defunct Facebook account, go to General Account Settings, edit the email settings, and click on Add another email.
- Enter your new email address, and your password, and click Save Changes.
- You will be sent a confirmation email to your new email address. Be sure you accept the new email. You will be returned to Facebook's account settings page, where you can now make the new email the primary.
- Click the Primary email: button next to the new email address, enter your password, and click Save Changes. This will close the edit window for your email. Re-open it, and you will see your new email address on top, as the primary email. To the right of your old (real) email address, it will say Remove. Click that, and your old email is cleared out.
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Create your new account. See above, under Creating A New Account, for the steps to accomplish this.
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Transfer ownership and admin rights. You may be the admin of one or more groups or pages. Before you delete your old account, set up your new account to have admin rights as well.
- From the left side column of your Facebook timeline, click on the group or page you administer. It will open in the Admin Panel.
- From the Edit Page menu, select Admin Roles.
- Add your new account as an administrator.
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Fill out the Sign Up form. You will need to enter your first and last name, your email address, your birthday, and your gender. You will also need to come up with a password. Facebook accounts are free.
- You will log in to Facebook with the email address you provide.
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Click the Sign Up button. You will need to enter the captcha phrase to prove you’re human. After clicking Sign Up again, the account creation process will begin.
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Add a friend or two. Before you begin creating your profile, Facebook will suggest people to add as friends. If you don’t recognize them, feel free to skip to the next step of the process. You will then be asked if you want to scan your email accounts for any other Facebook users. Again, you can skip this process if you’d like and just add friends through Facebook itself later.
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Enter in your education and current employer. This is completely optional, but will help others find and connect with you.
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Add a photo of yourself. It’s called Facebook for a reason! You can upload a photo from your computer or take a photo of yourself using your webcam.
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Verify your account. Once you’ve finished the account creation process, you will be taken to your Newsfeed. At the top of the page, you will see a message notifying you that an activation email has been sent to the address you signed up with.^[1]
- Open the email and click on the verification link. You will need to enter the code that is included in the message.
- Once your account is verified, you can begin using Facebook.
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Fill out the rest of your profile. Click the “Edit Profile link underneath your picture in the top-left corner. Add the information that you want to share. You can add a lot of information to your Facebook account. Some profile options include:
- Relationship Status
- Hometown
- Current Home
- Favorite Quotes
- Religious Views
- Political Views
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Set the privacy options for each piece of information you add. When you add information to your profile, you can click the Privacy button to the right of the entry. This will allow you to choose who can see what you’ve shared. You can share with your Friends, the Public, and specific lists (groups) of friends.