Here’s how to easily put your Facebook pics on your Google+ profile.

StartGooglePlus has step-by-step instructions to ensure all your precious snapshots get to their new home without breaking.

Transfer pictures at StartGooglePlus.

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.

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

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

Step 4: Go to Tools and select Export.

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

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

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.

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.

Would you like an invite to Google+?

Let me know via Twitter @Lavalilly

My recommendation? You should claim ownership of your business just to ensure the information posted is accurate. Then decide if you want to utilize this marketing avenue. Claiming your “place” ensures the business name, location, hours of operation and contact information is accurate. You can also control your profile pic.

Not every business will be listed, especially in smaller towns and rural areas. If your Facebook Place doesn’t exist yet, you can use the Facebook app for smartphones and check-in at your business to create it. Once your business has a Facebook Place, there is a link at the bottom that says “Is this your business?” Click that to begin the verification process. IF you choose not to create your Place, any customer can (and will) do it, and they may not enter your information correctly. If this happens, just click that “Is this your business?” button and make the appropriate corrections once you are authorized to do so.

Claiming your “Place” is a little more difficult than just creating it. It requires some supporting evidence–so random strangers should be prevented from claiming your Facebook Place. Aside from basic information like the name, URL, and address of the business, the Claim Place page also asks for the Federal EIN (Employee Identification Number), and requires that you upload a scan of official documents.

You can choose from articles of certificate of incorporation, certificate of formation, local business license, or Better Business Bureau accreditation. Once you submit the necessary information, the Place will not become yours until you receive an e-mail confirming the submission and notifying you to “stand by as we should be back with you soon.”

According to the Facebook Help Center, you can also advertise your Facebook Place on Facebook. The Help Center FAQ explains “To advertise your Place, click “I want to advertise something I have on Facebook” in the ad creation flow and choose your Place from the drop-down menu.”

Facebook Places is new to the location-based check-in application, so opportunities such as the ability to target market Facebook users who have checked in to your business doesn’t exist yet. Watch the blog below to keep up with the latest updates to this new marketing service and as always, just get in touch with me if you have any questions or just need a little help!

For the latest Facebook Places info visit the official Facebook blog.

I can find anything online, and this is a beautiful thing. Anyone can find anything online, and this is a troubling thing. You want to share and connect with your friends and family. You don’t want to supply endless personal data to marketers, spammers or individuals who may harm you.

Would you post a billboard downtown with your name, address, phone number, email address, who you’re dating or married to,  the names and ages of your children, where you went to high school and college, your political views, and a slew of pictures of you and the one you care about?

But we ALL happily post all of this information online for the entire planet.

So, let’s look at YOUR Facebook profile, shall we?

Log on to your Facebook account.
Click on “Account” (upper right hand corner) and click on “Privacy settings” in the drop-down menu.

1. Click on “Personal Information and Posts”

• You will notice “Photos” says “Edit Settings” – let’s get back to that one.
• Every other setting on this page should read “Friends Only”.
• You are also asked if you would like friends to be able to post on your wall. I say yes, but this is up to you.
• Now, let’s look at “Photos”. Click on “Edit Settings” and set every album to “Friends Only”. Now, go back to “Privacy Settings” again (upper left).

2. Click on “Contact Information

• Every setting EXCEPT “Add Me As a Friend” should read “Friends Only”.
• “Add Me as a Friend” should read “Everyone”, allowing all potential contacts to request you as a friend. Now, go back to “Privacy Settings” again (upper left).

3.  Click on “Friends, Tags and Connections”

• Every setting should read “Friends Only”. Now, go back to “Privacy Settings” again (upper left).

4. Click on “Search”

• “Facebook Search Results” should read “Everyone”
• “Public Search Results” is up to you. I allow search engines, such as Google, to show my profile in search results. Now, go back to “Privacy Settings” again (upper left).

5. Click on “Applications and Websites”

• Click on “What your friends can share about you “.  This is the most important application setting. By default, nothing can be shared except your name, sex, and profile photo — plus any information that fell under the Everyone option in the other privacy categories. Be certain all boxes unchecked. Now go back to “Applications and Websites” (upper left).
  
• Click on “Ignore Application Invites from Friends”. If you have certain friends who are always playing games, such as Farmville and seem to always be inviting you to join in the fun, just enter the friend’s name(s) here and you will still be connected to your friend in every way EXCEPT, no more annoying invites to participate in applications they consider to be fun. Now go back to “Applications and Websites” (upper left).
• IF you play games on Facebook, click on “Activity on Application and Games Dashboard. Be certain “Friends Only” is checked.  I highly recommend “Customize”, then click on “Only Me”. Now go back to “Applications and Websites” (upper left).
• Click on “Instant Personalization Pilot Program”. Be SURE the box at the bottom of the page is NOT checked. Recently, Facebook opened up Instant Personalization, another way for strangers and outsiders to view your personal information. Currently, there is a setting at the bottom of the Applications and Websites page called Instant Personalization Pilot Program. If you opt into this service, selected Facebook partner Web sites can instantly personalize their applications, based on your personal information.

You’re finished.

Please note the above suggestions are based on setting the highest privacy level possible. You may change ANY setting to offer less privacy, but I believe you should begin with the strictest settings and then decide where you want to relax your control.

As always, if you have any questions, just E-Mail Me.
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Sometimes we want to catch up on Facebook News, but just don’t have time to “visit”.

It’s simple to take yourself “offline” while surfing Facebook.

From your “HomePage” (not your “Profile” page)…  click on “Chat”

Then click on “Options” and “Go Offline”

Notes:

1. Return to “online (visible) status by clicking on “Chat” again. You are automatically back online.
2. You remain Offline until you make that change – even if you log-off and log-in again.