Yahoo! can now import your Facebook contacts

Everything about Facebook seems driven toward getting more data into the system, but it's always been a lot harder to get data out. Now that Yahoo! Mail has integrated Facebook Connect, though, you've got one more option for importing your friends' email addresses from Facebook.

To grab your Facebook friends as Yahoo! contacts, just head over to your Yahoo! profile and go to the contacts tab. For now, there's a Facebook import prompt on that page, but in case you close it or Yahoo! removes it, you can also find the import link under "tools > import." You'll have to approve Yahoo! to connect to your Facebook account, but the import process is pretty seamless after that.

For me, the big win in all of this is that once I've got my Facebook contacts into Yahoo! Mail, I can import them into Gmail, which is my main email provider.

Tags: contacts, email, facebook, facebook connect, FacebookConnect, import, yahoo