For everyone who doesn’t know, Facebook is running a little scared of Google+, and has blocked off at least one app that helps you import and invite your Facebook friends to Google+. I’ve got a way around that, though. To transfer your friends from Facebook to Google+, you can use Yahoo’s Import Friends from Facebook option. Here’s how you do it.
First and foremost, you’ve got to have a Yahoo! Mail address to start this process (obvious). It’s free to create one, and even if you don’t want to use it permanently… you need it for this.
Sign into your Yahoo! Mail account, either existing or your new one. Go to your contacts tab. Underneath the contacts tab, there will be an option to transfer your contacts over. Click “Import Contacts”.
You’ll see an option for importing your Facebook friends. Click the Facebook icon, clicking it results in a pop-up that asks you if you want to share your contacts with Yahoo!. Apparently Facebook doesn’t see Yahoo! as a threat. Click okay. If you are signed in, it will import all your friends who have email addresses listed with their profiles.
Once it’s done importing your contacts, go to the Circles Screen in Google+. Click on “Find and Invite”, then click “Find friends: Yahoo!”.
It will ask if you want to give permission to Google+ to access this information; agree, and Google+ will download your Yahoo! contacts into your account. They’ll be easy for you to find due to the fact that they’ll have Yahoo! icons (purple circles with a Y! in them). Click on these people and select them.
To invite them to Google+, you’ll have to put them in a circle, then it will show you at the bottom that you can invite those people to Google+. You’ll get an overlay with those people’s names listed. Press the blue invite button.
What I’ve personally done, instead of sorting them all into circles, is that I’ve added them to a circle called “Invitation Circle”; as everyone responds back and jumps onto Google+ (and adds me to their circles), I then classify them into their individual circles and take them out of the invitation circle.
Hope this was easy to follow. Good luck! And please feel free to reshare!