Liberate your Facebook contacts' email addresses.

14 pointsnetaddict15 years ago8 comments

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Create dummy yahoo account. Log in to it.

Navigate to address.yahoo.com

Navigate to Tools -> Import

Select Facebook icon

Grant permission to import from FB to Yahoo

After import, navigate to Tools-> Export

Source: reddit user sgibson12

jbail 15y

Does this mean Yahoo gets access to all your friends' email addresses?

Or is that a moot point since they are likely drinking from the Facebook data firehose already?

cheald 15y

My money's on "moot point".

whatever_dude 15y

Did this ever work? I can't see how it wouldn't be using the public Facebook API, which doesn't normally include contact's email (not even your own email).

tlack 15y

exactly what i was wondering. the permissions combination makes no sense. perhaps this was implemented by FB without the API?

revorad 15y

Honestly, who cares?

binarymax 15y

Plugged already?

Congratulations! 0 new contacts imported

netaddictOP15y

It is working intermittently. Apparently this works with hotmail as well because Facebook has a tie up with Microsoft.

http://blog.acousticrenditions.com/2010/01/14/export-faceboo...

jacobroufa 15y

Worked fine for me!

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