Posted: 7/11/2011 11:28:19 AM EDT
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Open-Xchange's tool for helping people reconstruct their Facebook contact list on Google+ has fallen victim to Facebook's revocation of its privileges. |
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Link to article where I got directions from here And yes, facebook is very very scared. Unfortunately though, they have a deal with Yahoo! being able to export contacts into your Yahoo! contacts from Facebook. Then you just export to a CSV file and then import that CSV back into Gmail, easy as pie. Therefore this method will be here to stay, since I highly doubt Facebook will be able to redact this feature anytime soon.
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This shouldn't be a surprise. It's a competing business of a similar nature. Why should they make it easy for Google+ to populate itself with all of it's userbase? In a sense, I see it as similar to Arfcom letting another forum have it's member list. If AwesomeTacticalGunz+ wants a userbase, let them grow their own the hard way, not just swipe it from someone else. |
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Quoted: This shouldn't be a surprise. It's a competing business of a similar nature. Why should they make it easy for Google+ to populate itself with all of it's userbase? In a sense, I see it as similar to Arfcom letting another forum have it's member list. If AwesomeTacticalGunz+ wants a userbase, let them grow their own the hard way, not just swipe it from someone else. Ok, true, but these scripts aren't accessing any information that isn't already public to you via Facebook. If your friend puts his e-mail down in his contact information, I can simply go to his contact information, copy his email, and invite him to G+ unless he privatized that information. All a script does is automate the process so I wouldn't have to go to 500 peoples information tabs, and have to copy and paste 500 individual emails. Public info is public bro.
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If FB is scared to lose people to Google+, then they're doin' it wrong by forcing updates on us like that incredibly fucking stupid chat sidebar. Seriously, what is "better and more convenient" about a bar that takes up the whole right side of the browser window and shows offline users? That's what the fucking friends list is for.  |
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If FB is scared to lose people to Google+, then they're doin' it wrong by forcing updates on us like that incredibly fucking stupid chat sidebar. Seriously, what is "better and more convenient" about a bar that takes up the whole right side of the browser window and shows offline users? That's what the fucking friends list is for. you can use facebook on something other then your phone ? wow. interesting.. my facebook is phone only wierd isnt it , I can you it all day long and say i dont have a problem... because i dont use it on a desktop 
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Quoted: Quoted: If FB is scared to lose people to Google+, then they're doin' it wrong by forcing updates on us like that incredibly fucking stupid chat sidebar. Seriously, what is "better and more convenient" about a bar that takes up the whole right side of the browser window and shows offline users? That's what the fucking friends list is for. you can use facebook on something other then your phone ? wow. interesting.. my facebook is phone only wierd isnt it , I can you it all day long and say i dont have a problem... because i dont use it on a desktop facebooks phone app is terrible....like horribly terrible. maybe you should try logging in on a computer sometime. or even better....try Google+'s phone app out...it's pretty amazing. |
