*EDIT: Instead of step 1, you could simply export your contacts to Yahoo/Hotmail, and Import them directly to Google+. Works much quicker. Follow the rest of the steps to import chat contacts**
Xkcd summed it up very well the day it was launched. I am sure that I am not the only person who has had enough with Facebook. The news feed was always full of shit; Plus is a very refreshing change indeed.
To add more people to your Google+ however, they need to be on your Gmail contacts list. I managed to get it done with some help from a few blogs here and there. In short, here is how one goes about it:
- Get this plugin that transfers FB contacts to the Google CSV. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ficlccidpkaiepnnboobcmafnnfoomga# . It takes a lot of time; It took me nearly 2 hours to get done with around 600 contacts.
- The contacts will be under a Contact group called Imported from Facebook. Now Click compose mail, and add Imported from Facebook in the To section (Google will auto-suggest it; It will replace that with a list of all the contacts). Copy this list and save it to a file called a.txt
- Open the Terminal in Linux and type in the following command: cat a.txt | sed -e 's/,/,\n/g' | sed -e 's/".*"//g' | grep -i @gmail.com > b.txt
- This will save all your .gmail.com contacts to a file called b.txt.
- Click the pop down button immediately on the right of "Chat" on Gmail. Click add contact. Now, paste the contacts from b.txt, 100 at a time (If you try to paste too many contacts at the same time, Google will throw some error) and click Invite to Chat.
- Now your Find and Invite list will be populated with your FB contacts. Also, chat invites will be sent to all contacts with a Google account.
- You are done. Switch to Google+ and enjoy!