How to Export Your Facebook Contacts to Google+ (Plus)

The current war started from June 28, 2011 between Facebook and Google when Google Inc announced a new social media platform i.e Google+. An incredible sign-up was recorded by people from all over the world. Since then, millions of users have created accounts on Google Plus and enjoying great features on it. However, Facebook still has 800 millions+ active users and announcing counter-features as a wise market leader. But due to some impositions like mandatory timeline and new policies related to fan pages, a wide number of people are looking for the smart way to export their Facebook contacts into Google+.



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How to Import Facebook Contacts into Google Plus (+)

Nowadays, this is asked by many people frequently over web, because they have become twisted in choosing between the two great social media websites Google+ / Facebook! They actually don't want to leave their profile with over thousands of friends in it. And as I have said that Facebook is not giving any chance and loop hole to export contacts from Facebook to Google Plus as a wicked market leader.

As far as I know, you can't export directly your personal data like photos, contacts and friends from Facebook to Google Plus!

Although, there is an indirect way to do so, you can name this one of the best Google+ Tip which help you to have your old friends there as well.

How to Export Facebook Contacts to Google Plus (+)

The process of importing your Facebook contacts into Google+ is easy but tricky, so follow below steps to learn how to come up with this:

STEP 1:
As far as Facebook allows you to export your friends into Yahoo Mail. So we will use this (Yahoo Mail) to transfer our contacts into Google Plus. Now, sign-up with your Google+, Facebook and Yahoo account.

Note: You must have an active account on Yahoo for this purpose, means your account should be at least 14 days old.

STEP 2:
Go to your Yahoo account and in Contacts select click over Import Contacts.

STEP 3:
Now select "f" (Facebook icon) from the options given.

After confirmation message, Yahoo starts retrieving your data from Facebook and within couple of seconds you will be notified that your contacts has been exported from Facebook into Yahoo.

STEP 4:
Now go to your Google+ account and click over circles to proceed further.

STEP 5:
Now on home page you could find suggestions box on the right hand side of the page. Click over "view all" to proceed further.

Now, it will show you a new tab from where you can add contacts into Google+ plus from another account. Here click over Yahoo button to add Yahoo (Facebook) contacts into Google Plus.

STEP 6:
Now, Yahoo will ask permission to export contacts into Google Plus, grant it to do this.

STEP 7:
This is how you import your Facebook contacts into Google Plus and if they are not at Google+, let them invite by sending them Google+ invitation and hangout with them at this new platform with great features.

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