How to 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. 
  1. Create a new Yahoo Mail account. You can do this at: http://mail.yahoo.com. Or, log into your existing account.

    Type in your existing Yahoo ID and password to log into Yahoo Mail
     Type in your existing Yahoo ID and password to log into Yahoo Mail


    Or, if you don't have a Yahoo Mail account, click the "Create New Account" button to make one.
     Or, if you don't have a Yahoo Mail account, click the "Create New Account" button to make one.
  2. 2
    Click on the "Contacts" tab, and then on "Import Contacts."

  3. 3
    Select Facebook.

  4. 4
    Enter your Facebook account information to log in, and then select "Okay" to allow Yahoo to see your Facebook information. You can always remove this accesslater.

  5. 5
    Wait for Yahoo to find and import all of your Facebook contacts. Then select "Done."

  6. 6
    Log in to Gmail. Go to the Google+ toolbar near the top of your webpage browser and click on your name. In the box that pops up, click "Circles."

  7. 7
    This will open your Circles page in a new window. Locate the "Find Friends" section above all of your suggested contacts, and select "Yahoo."

  8. 8
    Press "Agree" to share your Yahoo contacts with Google+. Wait for the import to sync.

  9. 9
    All of your contacts will appear in the "Find and Invite" section of your Google+suggested friends. Now you can organize them with Google+!

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