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+ ?
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.
Instead of Step 8, I used the email adresses in the CSV file to just invite all the facebook-friends to Google+. Optionally you can add those people to circles next. It did it like this, because I didn’t want to all new contacts in my gmail.
Anyway: thanks for overall yahoo tip!
or once you import them to yahoo, just import them straight to G+ from the “find and invite tab”. there is a yahoo button in the top left…
Exporting facebook friends from Yahoo wasnt working for me – I would get an empty file.
Then I created a list on yahoo mail and added all the facebook contacts to that list. Then I was able to export that list and got the file to work.
Thanks for the workaround, Marcos
Marcos, your solution is not working anymore. Do you have another suggestion? Can I export and then somehow strip the restrictions on the FB contacts?
I got all my contacts to yahoo, but when I export them, I can only export the non-facebook contacts..
I think Facebook figured out this workaround and made it so you can’t export facebook contacts from Yahoo