A software engineer Mohamed Mansour developed Chrome extension Facebook Friend Exporter to allow Facebook users to easily import all of their friend data into other applications, like Google Plus. the extension is being blocked by the leading social network.
Mansour posted on the Facebook Friend Exporter page:
Facebook Friend Exporter was not developed specifically for Google Plus. According to CNET, the extension works by allowing users of the social network to save their contacts’ email addresses, birthdays, phone numbers, and other information as text files, or to import them directly into Gmail, simplifying the process of rebuilding a contact network.
Mansour posted on the Facebook Friend Exporter page:
However, CNET pointed out that the extension clashes with Section 3.2 of Facebook’s terms of serviceFacebook is trying so hard to not allow you to export your friends. They started to remove emails of your friends from your profile by today, July 5, 2011. It will no longer work for many people. New version with a different design is currently deploying. You might have to do exports daily. It uses a different approach, and I will maintain this version. Just bear with me.
So the war between two leading Social networks continues..You will not collect users’ content or information, or otherwise access Facebook, using automated means (such as harvesting bots, robots, spiders, or scrapers) without our permission.













