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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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Search for people to add. Facebook is all about making connections. Whether it’s keeping in touch with your cousin across the country or catching up with an old schoolmate on the other side of town, your Facebook experience will improve by adding connections.
- Enter a person’s name, email address, or phone number into the search bar at the top of the page. This will return a list of results. Click the result from the list, and then click the “Add friend” button. This will send a message to the person asking to confirm your friend request. You can include a personalized message with your friend request.
- When the other person accepts the request, you will become friends with them and will have access to their timeline.
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Use the “People I may know” tool. When you click the Search bar, the first option will be “People I may know”. Click on this to open a list of people that you may know, based on people your friends know. This tool becomes more useful after you have a few friends added.
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Organize your friends with Lists. You can create custom lists, or groups, of friends that let you easily share with specific people. In the left menu, hover your cursor over the Friends heading and click MORE. This will open a list of your Friends Lists.
- Click the “+Create List” button to create a new list. You can create lists to help separate family from friends, and business from both.
- Enter the list name and add some members. As you type names, you will see suggestions for matches. This will let you quickly add multiple people.
- You can add new and existing friends by clicking the Friends button at the top of their profile and selecting the list you want to add them to.
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Respond to friend requests. As you start connecting with other people on Facebook, you’ll start receiving friend requests from other users. You can see your pending requests by clicking on the Friends icon on the top of the Facebook screen.
- Next to each request you will see the number of mutual friends you have with that person.
- You can click the person’s name to see their basic profile.
- Click the Confirm button to add the person as a friend, or the Not Now button to ignore the request.
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Unfriend people you no longer want to connect with. If you no longer want to stay connected with someone, you can unfriend them so they no longer have access to your information and posts. To do this, click on the friend to open their profile, click the Friends button at the top of their page, and then select Unfriend.