If you have a lot of time and information invested in Facebook, it’s not easy moving to a new social network. Here are a few tips on moving your information from your Facebook account to your shiny new Google+ account.
Moving social networks isn’t the easiest thing to do, but luckily there are a few tools we can use to migrate pictures, videos, and friends. Wall posts and messages don’t make sense to migrate between networks so we are going to leave those out.
Export Facebook Information
Start by downloading all of your Facebook information. To do that, log into Facebook and go to account settings in the upper right corner.
On the settings tab click “learn more” next to “download your information.”
Enter your password and click continue; you will be sent an email once your download is ready.
Once you receive the email, click the link to download a zip of all of your files.
Extract the files and open the index.html file to verify all your information is there.
Import Photos
Google+ uses Picasa web albums to share pictures. To get started you need to download Picasa from the link below.
Once installed, open Picasa and add the Facebook photos folder you just downloaded to picasa.
Set Picasa to scan the folders once, and then let it do the import.
Once the pictures have finished importing into Picasa, find the albums and select Sync to Web on the right.
A pop-up window will open and ask you to sign in to web albums. Log in with your Google+ account and a second popup will ask you to verify your upload settings. Click change settings and modify the settings to you liking. Make sure you check the box to “use the above settings” otherwise you will be asked every time.
We’d recommend setting your new album visibility to private by default. You will be able to change the sharing settings from Google+ later, and this prevents you from making any embarrassing photos public.
Now go back to Picasa and click sync; your photos will be uploaded in the background.
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