The advent of social media has changed every aspect of our lives – keeping in touch with friends is just so easy these days. You no longer have to make an effort to reach out, and the best part is that keeping track of friends’ phone numbers and addresses is also child’s play. In fact, our email accounts – whether Gmail, Yahoo, or Hotmail – now double up as address books. There is no need to maintain those old, yellowing address diaries any longer! And did you know that the various address books offered by different services are also inter-operable?

Transfer your Facebook contacts to Yahoo

Yes, it’s possible for you to transfer contacts from one account to another. For example, you can easily transfer your Facebook contacts to your Yahoo account! But is t here any good reason to do so? Yes, here’s why you should always import your Facebook contact lists to your email account:

1. You gain access to your Facebook contacts on your cellular phone – this is very useful as some platforms such as Windows Phone don’t give complete access for the phone contact list to Facebook. Importing your FB friends into your email account contacts list helps you get around this.
2. You have a backup of your friends list. If you ever lose access to your FB account – either by getting hacked or if you are at work behind a corporate firewall – you can still reach your friends.
3. Sometimes email or Yahoo Messenger might be  a more convenient way of staying in touch with your pals

Here’s how you can go about it

1. Log in to your Yahoo account.
2. Open your Yahoo contacts page by clicking on the link.
3. You will now see – on the right side of the page – an option under ‘Tools’ for importing contacts to your Yahoo account. Click here and then click on the Facebook link when that option shows.
4. This will lead to a new login window opening. Enter your Facebook login email and password to authorise Yahoo in accessing your FB account.
5. When asked by Facebook, click on ‘Allow’ to let Yahoo access your Facebook contacts. Don’t worry, this is very secure and Yahoo will not be shown your login password!
6. Once Facebook authorises Yahoo, it will import all your FB contacts into Yahoo and then display a window showing it has done so.
7. You can then view all the contacts imported into Yahoo by clicking on ‘Last imported’ in your contacts page.
8. There, that’s done! If you want, you can easily import contacts and friends from other email and social networking sites!

This method should get you on started your way to combining your address books from all over the internet!

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