How to Transfer Facebook Contacts to Google+

I have had a Google+ profile page for awhile now and have thoroughly enjoyed it. The only reason I have not used it exclusively is because the Facebook page that I have had since I first got a college email address in 2005 has all of my friends on it.

I like to get in on technology early on if I can, but most of my Facebook friends don't agree with me. I didn't bother hunting down each FB friend on G+ because I had every intention on moving all of my Google stuff to Google Apps. Once I did get Apps set up I wanted to add all of my FB friends to make it worthwhile, should be simple right?

Not.

Facebook is making it ridiculously hard to transfer contacts to Google and I perfectly understand. If I were operating a awesomely successful business I definitely would not be giving by customers the address of my arch-rival that was better than me in every way; and neither will Mark Zuckerburg. 

I tried the Yahoo mail work around and it has already been closed when, getting very frustrated, I had an epiphany. Android. Google was the answer to my problems. I have had an Android phone since 2008 and loved every minute of it, I even recently decided to root my Evo Design since Sprint wanted to take their sweet time giving me Ice Cream Sandwich. I will post a how-to on that tomorrow.

Anyway, what I figured out was that my phone combines all of my contacts into one address book, Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, and phone contacts. So here it is:

1. On your Android phone open People, hit menu, select Import/Export and export all of your contacts into one pretty file. 

2. Drop that file into the Google Drive app on your phone (you do have that installed right? If not get it here.), or use Dropbox, or Box, or just your SD card.

3. Now you could do all of this on your phone, but for the sake of simplicity do it on a computer. Extract that contact file from the location you saved it to and drop it on your desktop. Open your GMail and go to your contacts, select import, browse to your desktop, select your file and upload it. 

4. Go to your Google+ profile, go to your circles and search your GMail contacts and add whoever your little heart desires.

There you have it, simple as can be really and unless Facebook wants to not let you integrate your contacts on your Android phone this should always work. Your welcome.

Let me know in the comments how it worked out for you.