Information Madness

Facebook or Google+ Which one is your favorite Social Networking hangout place? Google surely fell short on its first try at the Social Networking using Orkut. Now Google has launched its new weapon to fight against the social networking giant Facebook. Google+.

Whether to use Facebook or Google+ is up for debate but one thing is sure that you don't want to keep all your personal information to only one place. You might want to keep your options open just in case if your account gets banned in Facebook, you have Google+ to fall back to. Last week I showed you how you can import your Facebook contacts into Google+. Now lets see how you can transfer your facebook photos to Google+ in just few clicks.

Just like importing your facebook contacts to your Google+ account, you have few different options for how you can transfer your facebook photos and videos to Google+

1. PickNZip.com

• Head over to PicknZip.com
• Connect using your facebook account

• -Once you are logged in you’ll get option to select images in following categories-

  • You can choose the photos you have been tagged.
  • Photos from groups and fan pages If you are the admin.
  • Your entire Facebook album which also includes pictures posted on the wall and your profile pictures.
  • You can even choose the photos of your friends and their album (not advisable to take without permission).
  • The photos are downloadable as HD .
• Select the photos you want to download and click on download button to download the zip file
• Once you have downloaded the Zip file, extract those pictures and visit your Picasa to upload your pictures to your account.
• Your Picasa web albums pictures will be available to your Google+ account.

2. Move2Picasa

This option is available only to Chrome Browser users. Move2Picasa is a Chrome Application that installs in your browser and lets you transfer all your Facebook photos to Google+ without downloading any pictures to your computer. You just install the app, connect to Facebook, Login to your Picasaweb account and boom!! Pick and choose which pictures you want to transfer from Facebook to Google+. Its just that Easy. So visit Move2Picasa Chrome App

3. MoveYourPhotos.com

This is also specific to a browser. If you are a Firefox user, you can use this tool to transfer your Facebook photos to Google+. This particular web tool is not that sophisticated but does the job really well. visit MoveYourPhotos.com and then install the Firefox Addon. Once you install the Firefox Addon, visit MoveYourPhotos.com, follow the steps to install the Firefox Extension.

1. Download and install the addon from the link above
2. Navigate to within a facebook photo album which you would like to transfer to your google+ account
3. Enter a name for the album in the text box on your photoimporter toolbar (See video Below).
4. Click 'make album'
5. At this point, you may repeat the last 3 steps with as many different facebook albums as you want
6. When you have recorded the information of all the albums you wish to import to google+, click 'submit all albums'
7. You will be brought back to moveyouralbums.com and given a link to login to your google account
8. Once you have logged in to google the site will begin processing your photos, upon completion it will give you a link to your new albums on google

 So there you go!! Now all your Facebook Photos are now available in Google+ Enjoy!!!