Import birthdays and other missing data from Facebook with the extension button
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Sampath K Iyengar
Facebook had a lot of restrictions , so agree with Kevin
Matthew Silberman
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Kevin Sun
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Unfortunately we don't have a plan for this yet - as Facebook has pretty tight data restrictions. Still looking into how we can do this in a way that is compliant and does not get your account banned.
Matthew Silberman
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Joachim Auster
To read this feature is open since 2021 is frustrating.
Facebook imports only friends with brithdays, all other friends are ignored.
And no other data is imported, really annoying.
Then there is the HUGE issue with MERGING contacts!
Users have NO control over which picture and data will be used for merging, this happens all in a blackbox with NO control over this process. This is a NO-GO, my friends at Dex.
This shows me, that Dex is NOT the value solution to me. Yes, there are no other similar solutions in the market, but paying and not being able to use Dex as a contact book for phoning and emailing is a NO-GO.
I am an Office 365 user. I dont use Google for personal data like contacts. Thats why Dex is out of the game due to important missing features.
Kevin Sun
Joachim Auster: Unfortunately this is in part a limitation on Facebook which we're trying to investigate -- Facebook will restrict your account if you view too many profiles.
With merge and fix, as mentioned in https://roadmap.getdex.com/admin/feedback/feature-requests/p/better-duplicate-deduplicate-detection-for-merge-and-fix, for all fields which we can combine (like phones and emails), we'll take a combination of all values. For all values, we prioritize the most recently created contact. Hope this helps!
CJ
import additional information as well like location
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Joachim Auster
CJ: Which data is imported? No documentation available, all is just black-box, that is not trustfull at all. Sorry to say this honestful.
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Jason Kanoff
Like this idea. I couldn't pull in birthday's from Facebook to my previously added contacts.
Kevin Sun
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Kevin Sun
Hi Dominic Gatti, we should already be able to do this with our Facebook import; did this process not work for you?
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Dominic Gatti
Kevin Sun: When I hit the dex button in facebook it pulls their profile link but not their birthday. I have had to manually enter it