Some Facebook members are not too pleased with the "walled garden" approach of Facebook.
Reason is simple - while you can easily import your Outlook address book and GMail contacts into Facebook, the reverse path is closed. There's no "official" way to export your Facebook friends email addresses or contact phone numbers out as a CSV so that you can synch the data with Outlook, GMail or your BlackBerry.
Some third-party Facebook hacks like "Facebook Sync" (for Mac) and "Facebook Downloader" (for Windows) did allow you to download your Facebook friends' names, emails, mobile phone number and profile photo to the desktop but they were quickly removed for violation of Facebook Terms of Use.
There are still some options to take Friends data outside the walls of Facebook wall.
If you are on Microsoft Outlook, Fonebook is one easy (and legal) option to transfer photos, web address and birthdays of your Facebook contacts to Outlook (no email or mobile phone numbers).
Another secret program is Profilicious that will export your Facebook address book to other programs like Outlook or GMail. Since Facebook displays the contact email addresses as an image, Profilicious has an inbuilt OCR to extract the text out of that image.
You can download Profilicious here on CNET as the official developer site is down. The trial will download details of only 20 Facebook friends but still, use Profilicious at your own risk as it might put your Facebook account at risk.
Related: Add Friends Pictures from Facebook to Outlook Address Book
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