Saturday, March 5, 2011

Import your facebook contacts to gmail!

I know that friends of my age will have more friends in Facebook than the number of contacts in their Gmail account.
in this post I will give you step by step instructions on how to import your contacts from Facebook.
Things you will need
1: A yahoo e-mail id
2:I guess nothing more..!
I will explain the whole procedure in steps
STEP 1: Log in to your yahoo account. Choose the classic view as the screen shots I will be showing will be in classic view.
STEP 2: Open the contacts tab. Here you will see "Import your Contacts from other accounts to Yahoo!" Click on "import now".(see screen shot)

STEP 3: On clicking on "import now" you will see another screen. You will see the following text."New! Bring together all the people you know in one place. Click on an icon to start." Here click on the Facebook icon. On clicking on the icon a new window opens asking you to log in to Facebook. Once you log in yahoo imports your Facebook contacts. Click on "done".
STEP 4: next click on "tools"->"export" and export it in "yahoo csv" format.
STEP 5:Once this csv file is downloaded into your computer log out of yahoo and then log in to gmail.
STEP 6:Click on "contacts" On doing so you will see "more actions" button. on clicking it you will see "import" option.(see screen shot)

STEP 7: Now import these contacts to your account..
That's it..!! You can now contact your facebook friends through gmail!

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