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As opposed to Facebook simply not allowing you to export your contacts?

What if you would have picked today (or rather any other day) to set up a new gmail account for your girlfriend and needed her facebook contacts?

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You can get the contacts for a facebook user through the graph api (including email, if you request the appropriate permission). This is what you get a list of when you request someone's friend list: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/user .

Interesting, your list of contact data doesn't actually include any contact information, which is the crux of the argument.

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