Export Email Addresses of all your Facebook Friends

Export Email Addresses of all your Facebook Friends into Harddisk

The most important principle for Facebook is that every person owns and controls her information. Each person owns her friends list, but not her friends’ information. A person has no more right to mass export all of her friends’ private email addresses than she does to mass export all of her friends’ private photo albums. - Facebook

There’s however a simple (and perfectly legal) workaround that can help you easily download all your friends email addresses from Facebook’s walled site.

1. Create a Yahoo email account. Even if you have an old one, create a new one so that the imported contacts are clean. You’ll get a confirmation screen that looks like this, below. Click on import contacts “Get Started” link and then choose Facebook.

2. Authorize Yahoo in the Facebook pop up and then wait a few seconds. You’ll see a confirmation screen like this:

3. Ok, you’ve now imported the names and email addresses of all your Facebook friends into Yahoo. Now just click “tools” in Yahoo mail and export. CSV format is a good format for uploading to Gmail or your desktop contact book. Save the file to your desktop, and you’re done.

4. Enjoy your new contacts. You’ve just done something that Facebook says you have no right to do, using tools provided by Facebook.

Tips –

Do not use Chrome for this, it doesn’t appear to work in that browser. - Admin (CosmoCyber)

If Yahoo! is unable to import your Facebook Address book, open your Facebook page and choose “Application Settings” under Account. Next remove the “Yahoo! Contact Importer” application from your Facebook profile and try the steps mentioned in the video again. - Admin (CosmoCyber)

Facebook export works only if you have chat enabled. - Admin (CosmoCyber)


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