How to Import Your Facebook Friends to Google+

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If you think yourself to be Facebook’s most valuable asset then think again, it’s your network of friends that keeps your eyes glued to the blue header webpage. Would you ever login again to Facebook if all your friends switch to Google+ ?

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Facebook Friend Exporter, now a BANNED Chrome extension, allowed more than 43,000 people to export details of their Facebook friends, including their names, email addresses, phone numbers, websites, addresses and birthdays. This information could be imported directly into Gmail address book or could be saved as a CSV file.

According to Facebook Friend Exporter

Get *your* data contact out of Facebook, whether they want you to or not. You gave them your friends and allowed them to store that data, and you have right to take it back out! Facebook doesn’t own my friends.

Facebook is making every effort to stop users from using Google+, one feature on which they are stressing a lot is exporting facebook friends to Google+. They have not only banned Facebook Friend Exporter and other similar extensions but have also started to remove email addresses from profiles in an attempt to keep users away from Google+. Despite their best efforts its Facebook partnership with Yahoo that has proven to be a life saver or in this face friend saver.

How to Import Facebook Contacts to Google+

By following  the simple steps below you will be able  to export all your facebook contacts to Google+

Step 1: Sign up into your Yahoo mail account -> Contacts tab -> Import contacts.

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Step 2: Click Facebook logo, and allow the application to share contacts.

facebook contacts export

Step 3: Select all your facebook contacts by clicking the check box as shown in the image below.

facebook contacts export

Step 4: Go to Tools and select Export.

facebook contacts export

Step5: Download the file in CSV format as explained in the image.

facebook contacts export

Step 6: Go to gmailContacts tab and create a group named Facebook for your new contacts to land into.

facebook contacts export

Step 7: After step 6 go into more actions tab and press import and select the Yahoo CSV file that you made in step 5.

facebook contacts export

Step 8: Go to Google+ and Circles tab, then Add and Invite and they’re all there!

Congratulations!!! you have successfully exported all your facebook friends to Google Plus via Yahoo.

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