Facebook Unfriends Third-Party Friend Exporter

Mark Zuckerberg may be the most-followed Google Plus user, but that doesn't mean the relationship between the established social network and the search engine giant's upstart is all peaches and cream.

Mark Zuckerberg may be the most-followed Google Plus user, but that doesn’t mean the relationship between the established social network and the search engine giant’s upstart is all peaches and cream.

Open-source software engineer Mohamed Mansour developed Chrome extension Facebook Friend Exporter to allow Facebook users to easily import all of their friend data into other applications, like Google Plus, but, as reported by ZDNet’s Friending Facebook blog and CNET’s DeepTech, the extension is being blocked by the leading social network.

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