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by uriel 5467 days ago
Then why I can't easily export my friends list from Facebook to Google+?
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qaexl 5467 days ago
Someone published a hack:

(1) Open up a Yahoo account (2) Import Facebook contacts into the Yahoo account (3) In the add people to circles page, import from the Yahoo account.

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kmavm 5467 days ago
Because Google is too proud to use the simple AJAX API that Facebook provides to do so.

https://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/?method=GET&#...

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magicalist 5467 days ago
that seemed weird that they wouldn't just use that, but the facebook platform policies don't seem too keen on that kind of use (which makes more sense than your post, considering the legal claims facebook has made in the past against harvesters of their data, but I could still be wrong).

https://developers.facebook.com/policy/

Is this how those facebook -> google+ exporters are working, though?

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