Google is ready to launch a brand new social networking platform named Google PLUS” The main aim for this project is to competite with Facebook. No to make it WAY better. I’m really excited since Google does everything really well.
Ok so I know Google kinda failed with Orkut as Facebook replaced it. Oh there’s Buzz too…and then Wave..but darn it I know the 4th time is the charm..besides all these past applications were insanely awesome compared to FB’s technology, it was just that they never got people to make the switch. This time my instinct tell me this will be a huge success.
Google+ will have a tough battle mustering people from FB Facebook. Facebook has such a big lead in it’s market. Specially since Google and Facebook are good at different things. You can do alot of things on Facebook because its older and the industry standard in Social media, but Google+ has just started so you have to give it a lil bit of time to compare.
“Facebook has intentionally made it difficult for you to manage your friends list or move them anywhere else,” he says. “There are several third party tools to help you do this and they all work in about the same way. Facebook is also actively shutting down or blocking these tools so you may want to do this sooner rather than later.” He then provides the following steps:
Set up a Yahoo email account if you don’t already have one. It only takes a minute. Unfortunately, you can’t use Gmail because Facebook has blocked it.
Sign into your Yahoo mail account using Facebook.
Go to email, click Tools, select Import from Facebook. You may need to try this several times for it to complete.
Go to the Tools menu and select Export to CSV file. Give the file a name and save it to your desktop.
Open Gmail and click Contacts, More Actions, Import. Browse to the CSV file you just imported.
Give the New Group a name like “Facebook Friends” and begin the Import
Go to Google+ Circles. Your imported Facebook Friends will show up under “Find & Invite”.
Add these friends to the Circles that make sense to you. You can also create new circles and invite them into those circles.
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