How to Import an Address Book to Find Friends

If you use a desktop e-mail client (like Microsoft Exchange or Entourage), Facebook can’t automatically find your friends. You must import your address book so that Facebook can check it for friend matches. First you create a CSV file from your address book. The method for doing so depends on what e-mail client you use. Here’s how to get the right instructions.

Go to the Find Friends page.

Choose Find Friends in the Friends drop-down menu in the big blue bar on top.

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Click on the Upload Contact File link on the upper-left corner.

This expands a window that looks similar to this. Choose to automatically import your contacts from Outlook or select to upload a contact file.

If you don’t have a CSV file already created, click the How to Create a Contact File link.

Follow the instructions; then import the file, and continue.

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Choose your friends.

You can click the box beside someone’s name. You can skip the name. You can check the Select All Friends option at the top of the screen, or you can Select All Friends and then deselect the friends you don’t want. When you’re ready, click Add to Friends. Facebook will automatically send a friend request to each of the friends you selected. A new list of friends in your contact list that are not on Facebook will appear. It should look something like this:

(Optional) Invite people to join Facebook and become your friend.

Similar to adding friends, you can click Invite to Join or Skip. You can select all or none of the people. Then reselect the ones you want to add by using the check boxes to the left of their e-mails and clicking Invite to Join.