Thursday, July 7, 2011

How to free your Facebook Contacts and bring them over to Google+ by using Yahoo Mail!

Were you nonplussed by Facebook blocking contact exporting to Google+?

Well, I have found a relatively simple work-around! Unfortunately this solution requires you to have a Yahoo! Mail account though.

Step 1 - Import Facebook contacts to Yahoo Mail
a.) In Yahoo! mail, click on Contacts, then click on the Tools button.
b.) The tools button will reveal a drop down menu - click on Import....
c.) Click on the Facebook icon.
d.) You'll be asked if you want to share your contacts with Yahoo. Click Okay.

Step 2 - Export your Yahoo contacts to a CSV file.
a.) In Yahoo! mail, click on Contacts, then click on the Tools button.
b.) The tools button will reveal a drop down menu - click on Export....
c.) You'll see several options for exporting. Click on the Export Now button for the first option (Microsoft Outlook)
d.) Enter the verification code if you are not a robot and click Export Now.
e.) You'll get one of those "Your download will start in 5 seconds. If it doesn't please click here" messages, and your CSV file should start downloading. Save it to your preferred location (downloads folder, desktop, etc).

Step 3 - Import your CSV to gmail
a.) In Gmail, clcik on Contacts, then click on the More Actions button.
b.) The More Actions button will reveal a drop down menu - click on Import...
c.) Click Choose File and browse to your CSV file from Step 2e above. Select the file and click on the Open button.
d.) Optional: You might want to check the checkbox for "Also add these imported contacts to:" and select New Group.. so that you can create a label just for your Facebook contacts.
e.) Click on Import and you're all done. Gmail should merge your Facebook contacts with your gmail contacts (and also add a label if you checked the box in the last step)!!

Happy +ing!

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