Import Your Facebook Friends to Google+

Google+ makes it easy to connect with your Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail contacts, but Facebook has restricted the ability to easily import your Facebook buddies. [1]Fortunately this hack offers a relatively easy way around that restriction. Within a few minutes you can have all your Facebook friends in your Google+ circles.

Steps

  1. Create a new Yahoo Mail account. You can do this at: http://mail.yahoo.com. Or, log into your existing account.
  2. Click on the "Contacts" tab, and then on "Import Contacts."
  3. Select Facebook.
  4. Enter your Log Into wikiHow Using Your Facebook Account information to log in, and then select "Okay" to allow Yahoo to see your Facebook information. You can always remove this access later.
  5. Wait for Yahoo to find and import all of your Facebook contacts. Then select "Done."
  6. Log in to Gmail. Go to the Google+ toolbar near the top of your webpage browser. Click on your name or your avatar. In the box that expands, click "View Profile."
  7. This will open your Google Plus homepage. In the left-hand toolbar, click on the Circles icon.
    • You might have to click "More" at the bottom to see your circles.
  8. This will open your Circles page in a new window. Locate the "Find Friends" section above all of your suggested contacts, and select "Yahoo."
  9. Press "Agree" to share your Yahoo contacts with Google+. Wait for the import to sync.
  10. All of your contacts will appear in the "Find and Invite" section of your Google+ suggested friends. Now you can organize them with Google+!

Alternate Method

  1. Open up the Friends to Gmail web app. It is located at: http://www.friendstogmail.com/.
  2. Click "Connect with Facebook" and type in your Facebook username and password (if not already logged in) to connect your account. Allow Friends to Gmail to access your basic information and your friends' information. You can always remove this access later.
  3. Wait for the app to find all of your friends and load the information into a text box.
  4. Select all of the text in the box and copy it.
  5. Open up Microsoft Excel, or another program that can save comma-separated values (.csv) files. Paste everything in the box into a new document.
  6. Save the document as facebook.csv in a place you will remember. Make sure to select "All Files" for document type so it's not saved as a text file.
  7. Log in to your Gmail account. On the left-hand menu, select "Contacts" and then "Import Contacts".
  8. In the box that pops up, choose the facebook.csv file to import. You may want to create a new group called "Facebook Friends" or "Imported from Facebook" for these contacts.
  9. All of your friends should successfully import, and now you can organize them with Google+!

Warnings

  • If your friends have not filled out their email address or have hidden it with privacy settings, their emails may not import into your address book.
  • Dragging friends to circles does not automatically invite them to Google+.
  • With the alternate method, your Facebook contacts may not appear in the "Find and Invite" section of your Google+ suggested friends list. Therefore, you may not be able to drag them to create circles. Instead, you may need to add them manually by entering their email address.



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Sources and Citations

  1. ↑ http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/06/getting-around-googles-slight-import-facebook-friends-on-google/241045/
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