Facebook blocks contact-exporting tool

[Jack]

Facebook has been blocking a tool intended to let people extract contact information their friends have shared with them, the tool's developer said today--but he's working on a way to evade Facebook's restrictions.

"Facebook is trying so hard to not allow you to export your friends. They started to remove e-mails of your friends from your profile by today July 5th 2011. It will no longer work for many people," warned Mohamed Mansour, developer of the Facebook Friend Exporter, a Chrome extension that automates the data extraction process.

The tool lets people save their contacts' e-mail addresses, birthdays, phone numbers, and other information into a text file or to directly import them into Gmail. That makes it much easier for Google account holders to rebuild their contact network at Google+, Google's brand-new social network site.

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[Jack]

I;m sure that these tactics will work...Great move........if they want to go...you just make that as hard as possible... :lolz:

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Keeping users by using "brute force" will never work , instead of these cheap moves Facebook should add some new features to it's social network.
Once Google+ will be officially released many users will drop Facebook and go to the new thing on the block.They will add their friends manually if they have too....
The truth is that Google+ isn't better than Facebook,it might have some extra options but on the long run users will see that those extra option aren't really that need it.