How to import facebook friends into google+?

Almost everyone of us have a facebook account and we all have built our friends, colleagues and or other circles over there. Nowswitching to Google+, since facebook doesn’t support export of friends, its harder and time consuming to invite them one by one.

Let’s save some time and migrate facebook friends to google+ in under 5 minutes.

Here we have written a step by step guide of how to export your facebook friends and then import friends into your google+ account.

Here are the steps

• Use an existing Yahoo! account or create a new one and login into Yahoo! mail
• Within Yahoo mail, Click on the Contacts tab
• Under Popular Tools section, you’ll find a link for Import Contacts, click on Import Contacts
• It will take you to a page with icons of Facebook, Gmail, Windows Live, Others….
• Now click on the Facebook icon and enter your Facebook username and password to authenticate with Facebook
• It’ll prompt you for confirmation saying “Do you want to share your contacts with Yahoo!”, Click on Okay
• It’ll start importing all your Facebook contacts into Yahoo and at the end you’ll see aCongratulations message
• Below the Congratulations message, you’ll find a link and click on the View imports link and it’ll take you to show all the imported contacts
• On the top right, click on the Tools drop down and choose Export
• Look for Yahoo! CSV on the left label and click on the corresponding Export Now button
• It will prompt you for a CAPTCHA code, enter it and click on Export Now
• Within a while it’ll download the yahoo_ab.csv file (or some file with .csvextension)
• Login into your Gmail account and click on the Contacts link just below the Mail link on the top left
• Under the More Actions dropdown choose Import
• In the Import Contacts dialog, choose the above downloaded yahoo_ab.csv (or whatever filedownloaded for you) and click on Import button (Optionally you could create a new group for this contacts. For that, just check the checkbox above the import button and choose New group)
• It’ll prompt to enter a group name, just type Facebook (or any name you like)
• Now you’ll get a confirmation message saying “We have imported all 3433 contacts found in the uploaded file.”, now click OK
• Now goto your Google+ account and click on Circles icon on the top
• Now click on Find and Invite link on the top, you’ll find all the Facebook friends below in the list
• Voila, that’s it – now you have all your facebook friends imported into Google+
• Now optionally, you could select each of your facebook friends and assign it to various circles (for e.g friends, family, colleagues, business, etc) so that it is easy manage

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