The Butterfly Effect

1. I read this blog post by Arjun Bharadwaj; in the comments is a link to this neat tool to import FB contacts to Google. 
2. I re-blog about the plugin, and post it to Mashable's G+ profile                                        . 
3. Mashable reblogs about it and publishes it online again
4. Facebook does not like people using this, and blocks the plugin
5. P.S. Gunaa V figured out another way around it; Just export the contacts from FB to Yahoo/Hotmail and import them to G+; To import chat contacts, follow from Step 3 here. 

Migrating to Google+ just got so much easier

*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:

1. 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. 
2. 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
3. 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
4. This will save all your .gmail.com contacts to a file called b.txt. 
5. 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. 
6. 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. 
7. You are done. Switch to Google+ and enjoy!