Export contacts from Facebook to Mac

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If you have a Mac with MacOS Mountain Lion or higher installed, you can export the contacts from Facebook and save them in your Mac address book.

Use Facebook, you have various contact details of your in the social network friends saved. Depending on the approval, this can include names, telephone numbers, e-mail-Addresses or residential addresses. If you want to save these addresses in your contacts on your computer, this is very easy if you work with a Mac. Integrate Facebook into your Mac's user interface, the contacts can be imported automatically.

Integrate Facebook into your user interface

If you want to export the contacts from Facebook to your Mac, you must first integrate the social network into your operating system. This not only has the advantage that you can export the contacts, but you also have them Ability to leave messages right from your desk without opening Facebook have to.

  1. Go to System Preferences and open "Mail, Contacts and Calendar".
  2. Click on the "plus" in the lower left corner to establish a new connection.
  3. Then click on the Facebook logo and enter your details.
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  4. Check whether the entry was successful. Swipe left on your trackpad with two fingers to reveal the sidebar. A small window with the content "Post" should appear below the top of the screen.
  5. Try leaving a message to see if it's in your timeline is shown.

Caution! The function is only available from version 10.8.2 of the MacOS operating system.

It is possible to export the contacts to the Mac

After integrating the social network into your operating system as described under point 1, you can export the contacts from this and save them in your address book.

  1. Open System Preferences, click Mail, Contacts, and Calendars again, then click yours FacebookAccount.
  2. Activate the checkmark in front of "Contacts".
  3. Open your address book to check that Facebook contacts are properly saved in your address book.

The imported contacts can neither be changed nor individually deleted in your address book. If one of your Facebook friends has not signed in under their real name, they will also appear in your contacts under the pseudonym. If you already have the person under the correct name, they will be represented twice. You can only change this by undoing the import of the Facebook contacts.

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