How to transfer your friends' birthdays from Facebook to Google Calendar

Social networking site Facebook offers us a number of useful features, including a calendar of birthdays friends with the notifications by which you will never forget to congratulate your dear people with their holiday. But at the same time, the social network is the biggest eater of our time, as we have repeatedly wrote. If you decide to reduce their interaction with Facebook to a minimum, it is not necessary to abandon the useful features that it offers. In this article you will learn how to migrate calendar of birthdays of your friends from Facebook to Google Calendar.

1. Go to Facebook and search for it in the left navigation column link Events in section apps.

2. You'll get a list of all the upcoming events you and your friends birthdays. Turn mode The calendar via top switch.

3. In the upper right corner next to the button Today click the gear icon and choose from the menu Export.

4. In the resulting window, click on the link transfer your friends' birthdays Right-click and copy the calendar's address, which should be of the form

5. Open Google Calendar in the left column under other calendars click on the additional menu arrow, select the item in which Add by URL.

6. Paste the copied address and calendar in a couple of seconds will appear in your calendar birthdays of your friends from Facebook. You can usually change the name, the color of the calendar, to include notification of the event approached by e-mail, SMS or pop-up window. Thus, you can receive event reminders from Facebook to your mailbox, phone or other device without having to install the clients of this social network.

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