Facebook Takes A Passive-Aggressive Slap At Google+

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Facebook Takes A Passive-Aggressive Slap At Google+



Facebook has blocked a Google Chrome extension called Facebook Friends Exporter that saves loads of time by importing your Facebook contacts into Google+.

There are a few ways to interpret the move -- Facebook could feel threatened by a new social network designed by a hugely successful tech giant, or it could simply be a noble effort playing watchdog by protecting its users' information.

There are obviously lots of parallels between Facebook and Google+. We'll see which one is actually a threat to the other.
 
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UPDATE:
Facebook Blocks ANOTHER Tool That Moves Your Contacts To Google+

We've seen it play out before, and now it's happened again.

Facebook is playing defense against Google+ and blocking a service that scrapes your profile for data to make the switch to Google+ easier.

This time it's a tool by a company called Open-Xchange aimed to rebuild your contacts from Facebook inside of Google+ by using nothing more than your contacts' names. Then it matched these names against your personal email records.

If Facebook won't even let software access names, then there's trouble brewing.

 

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I can't even access my contacts Facebook names in Yahoo mail to transfer over to Google+!
 

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Have you checked out Tom (formerly of Myspace)'s page? He has so much love for Google+ and not so much for Facebook.
 
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