How to Invite Facebook Friends to Google Plus [Google+]
Click here to view the Complete Google+ Setup Guide
Here is the easiest way to invite or add friends / people to Google Plus:
- Add all of the email addresses that you would like to invite to your Gmail or Yahoo email account.
- If you want to invite your Facebook friends, import your Facebook contacts into Yahoo Mail.
- Connect the account you’re importing contacts from to your Google+ account
- Go to Google Plus and click on the “Circles” link.
- Create a circle to add your friends into. I created one called “Facebook Friends”.
- Drag all of the people you want to be added to Google Plus into that group (you can select as many as you’d like at once).
- Go the the Google Plus “Home” section.
- Start writing a new post, or status update and @mention the friends you want to invite. They should get an email invitation within the next 30 minutes! Enjoy!
If you haven’t been invited yet, post a comment below (make sure you leave a valid email) and I will invite you when Google+ begins accepting new registrations.
Once you get the invite click on “View or Comment on Anson Alexander’s Post”:
On the next screen click on “Join Google+”:
If you have been invited and are seeing an “over capacity” message don’t worry, check out my post “Google Plus Temporarily Exceeded Capacity“.
If you provide a valid email address in order to comment, you do not have to post your email again the body of the comment.
See everyone on Google+!
Additional Google+ Tutorials:
- How to Disable or Turn Off Email Notifications in Google Plus.
- Managing Privacy Settings in Google Plus.
- How to Send a Private Message in Google Plus
- View Profile as Others See it in Google Plus.
- Google+ Keyboard Shortcuts
- Guide to Working with Circles in Google Plus.
About Anson Alexander
Anson Alexander is a graduate from the University of Tampa with a degree in International Business and Information Systems. He currently works full time as an IT Administrator and manages AnsonAlex.com as a hobby. His main interests include technology, social media, infographics, economics, marketing and web design. Connect with Anson on Google+.
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Aaah !! Allright then .. eager to see whether plus betters the previous attempts by google … Thanks a million for the invite anw ~
looks like google+ is creating the buzz as expected. would love an invite to check out. Thanks
Well a fellow technology enthusiast would much appreciate an invite, all I can offer in exchange is the 1.5 Million Eaves I have on Empire Avenue
thanks…
Sven's instructions are perfect.
Thx! Waiting for the queue sorting it out and me in.
Fasebook sucks!
This post skips a lot of steps. E.g. how do I get the Facebook/Yahoo list into Google +? Does it take all of Yahoo or just the people from a List I created on Yahoo?
None of the import options I click on work in Google + so I think that's why this post seems hard to follow.
Hey, hello.
I love technology and personally love new social products, well I hate the flute of social engines, but there might by hope. Thank you really much for your effort to keep us with info.
Thank you
Thank you so much! done everything you ask
! and it says that they're over limited their capacity but, I'll keep trying thank you again 
Can't wait to get on to google+. Hope it's worth the excitement please invite me dude!
thanks for the invite. it's nice of you to do this for everyone.
thanks for showing how to invite ppl.. are my friends are goin mad and want me to invite them but didnt know how.. so thanks a lot!! let the fun begin
Thanks!
thanks
Thank you
Thnx a lot dude!!!
thanks….
Thanks a LOT!!!
nice insight into the plus service.
Hi
Perhaps you can assist me here, I was a beta for the Wave project, and perhaps this is why I do see the "Google Plus" indicator on articles, and when I click on it the number goes up.Yet I can not for the life of me find an invite.
As a usual beta tester for Google projects it is possible I have in fact been accepted?
I am curious as to what would happen if you sent me an invite.
Could you please do so ?
Thanks
Andrea
So I followed your instructions in this post and for some reason my friends' are not receiving any emails with the posts in them. Has this happened to others?
I'm trying to invite my friends as well and this isn't working for me. Sucks being on Google Plus with only one friend on there! I tried adding their email to a circle, and then shared a link with that circle … nothing. And now I tried tagging the contact in the update like you recommended. So far no luck
https://plus.google.com/102572275654794325910/posts
Google Plus makes privacy settings clear and obvious, which facebook has yet to do. The idea of circles is simply genius. Would love an invite to check it out.
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Thanks!!! Got my invite, it's over capacity right now so cant sign in, but at least I can very soon. Thanks Again!
Thank you for the invitation! I Just received it by e-mail
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Hopefully Google works out the kinks soon, and reopens invitations. Very exciting, I hope they put a dent into Facebook, though I doubt it is really a "Facebook-killer".
If you have one to spare, I'd sure appreciate an invitation myself. Thank you in advance.
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Thank you for google ++
good tutorial
Thank you for inviting me to +…now as you said, after a couple of hours, I logged in successfully…
But there is another problem, when wrote a new post on the home page, it says "There is a problem saving your post. Please try again. Could you tell me how I can figure out this problem? or all I need to do is to wait?
Thanks again.
Thanks for 2 well written articles – this one and "Google Plus Temporarily Exceeded Capacity" – Thanks in advance if you make it through all the comments and manage to send an invite. Look forward to seeing everyone on Google+.
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I enjoy your articles about Google+. They are very informative. Please send me an invitation to Google+. Thank you!
Thanks for the excellent insights on Google+ — I am anxious to try it out as an alternative to The FBook. I would truly appreciate an invite. Thanks.
Interesting, but I guess you have to already know somebody who is invited. Kind of strange.
Thanks man you are awesome! Can't wait to see you on Google+!!!
Amazing resource Sir.
I don't know why you take your time to guide people into this new social network but thanks.
tnx
Just set up for my Google plus account. Complicated feature but really awesome, especially Hangouts feature
thanks
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thaaaaaaaanx !
I've had a google+ account for a little while now and I don't know if it's going to be as huge as some people are predicting. I don't think it has enough to make people switch from Facebook and twitter. And the fact that it's still not openly available isn't helping. But I guess only time will tell.
DJ,
You may find this article interesting: http://ansonalex.com/google-plus/google-plus-user-adoption-concerns-google/
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Was watching this on the news and like the privacy features. An invite would be nice.
Thanks for working for better secure social networks.
Excellent blog, nice seo work!
I was lucky enough to receive an invite to join Google+ yesterday. Still have a lot to learn about the whole process there. Thanks for what you explain in this post
thank you for the great instructions!
Thanks for the opportunity to get an invite! Actually I've enjoyed browsing your site, and have bookmarked it!
Laurence
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Thanks so much!
I followed your instructions for moving Facebook friends to Yahoo contacts. That worked fine.
Item 5 says, "Drag all of the people you want to be added to Google Plus into that group…"
I have G+ opened in one window of Chrome and Yahoo contacts in a second window. I can drag the Facebook contacts within the Yahoo page, but not onto the second window to place in G+ circle.
Help please.
Ken,,
You need to connect your Yahoo account to your Google+ account which you can configure in your Google+ settings here:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/settings/connectedaccounts
I'm early days in Google+ having gotten use to Facebook where I can make an explicit "friend request". How do I invite Google+ users (not my Facebook friends) to add me to their circle?
working good! thanks for the tips!
I expect you hardly ever stop! This is the ideal weblogs Ive ever read. You have insane talent here, man. great info for newbies..thanks for sharing.
Thanks a lot. So I followed your instructions in this post and I have implement that.