To get started you'll need the following:
Step 1 - Import Facebook Friends
What we're going to do in this step is import your Facebook friends into your Yahoo Mail contacts and then we'll export them into a format we can use for the following steps. A Yahoo Mail account is needed since it's the only way to get access to the contact information of your Facebook friends.
Import your Facebook Friends
Click the Import button to begin the import process, you'll be prompted to log into Facebook if you're not already logged in.
Step 2 - Export your Facebook Friends
The Print All option is located on the Actions drop down menu that appears just above your contact list. When you select the Print All option, Yahoo will launch a new window with your Yahoo Address Book ready for printing.
It should look a lot like the below image, but longer since it contains all of your contacts. We are not printing the address book however, what we need to do is extract the email addresses from the print document for use in Circloscope.
Step 3 - Extract Email Addresses
To extract the email addresses from the Yahoo Address Book what we need to do is copy the entire document to our clipboard and then paste that content into a tool that will allow us to extract just the email addresses.
Copy the document to your clipboard
To copy the text I clicked within the document and selected all the text with the keystrokes CTRL+A (the blue in the above image is showing that I've selected all the text) , I then copied all the text to my clipboard using CTRL+C. You could also click and drag with your mouse to select all the text, and then right click within the document and use the Copy menu item. If you're not sure what I did there, try this tutorial on how to copy and paste.
Extract the email addresses
If you are uncomfortable using a free web based tool for this, it is possible to extract the email addresses using programs like Excel or Microsoft Word, but I won't be covering that in this tutorial for simplicity sake.
To use the extractor, load the extractor and click within the top box labeled "Enter text with e-mail addresses to be EXTRACTED" and paste all the text from your Yahoo Address Book that we just copied to your clipboard.
Once you've pasted the text within the extraction box, click the Extract E-mail Addresses button to run the tool and you'll receive a nice list of just the email addresses in the box lower on that page labeled Final Filtered Result.
As you can see in the image to the left, I was able to extract 260 email addresses for my 314 Facebook friends. There are only 260 emails because not all of my friends have their email addresses available on Facebook.
Now you should select all the email addresses and copy them to your clipboard so you'll have them available for the next step.
Step 4 - Paste Email Addresses Into Circloscope
Circloscope is the only tool that allows you to locate Google+ users from a list of email addresses so you'll need to have either the Free or Premium version installed.
Either version will work, except that Free won't allow you to add all your friends to a circle in bulk, you'll have to add them one by one (it's still pretty quick unless you have a ton of friends to add).
To paste the email addresses into Circloscope, you'll need to open Circloscope and from the top menu go to Dashboard > Profiles > Emails / Google+ IDs as you can see in the image to the right.
That will launch a popup window where you can paste the list of your Facebook friend's email addresses that you copied from the extraction tool in the previous step.
Once you've pasted in your email address list, click the Ok button to start the search. After a moment or two you should see some results like those in the below image.
As you can see in the upper right of the results, Circloscope found 136 of my Facebook friends out of the 260 email addresses I used in the search.
Circloscope won't find a friend for every email address because not everyone has their email address publicly available on their profile (and some people just have not joined Google+ yet) but it's still a massive timesaver over trying to find 136 people manually! This is especially useful for those of you that have more Facebook friends than I do, as I know many of you do!
Step 5 - Add Facebook Friends to a Circle
You'll want to Select All as you can see in the image to the right. Note that Select All will only work if you are using Circloscope Premium, if you are using the free version you can add people to a circle one by one by hovering over their profile card and clicking the plus sign that will appear in the upper right of their card.
Once you've selected everyone, the Action menu will appear to the right of the Select menu as you can see in the below image.
To launch the Add to Circles popup select Action > Circles > Add to Circles.
When the process completes you'll get a success message for Circloscope indicating that your friends we're added to your new Google+ circle. You should then log into your Google+ account and check your circles to ensure everything worked as it should. As you can see below, mine worked out perfectly!
Next Steps
Once you have your Facebook friends in Circloscope and Google+ there are a few other things you may like to do.
Filter
Using Circloscope's filtering options, I split my Facebook Friends into two different circles - active on Google+, and inactive. I also added all of them to my white list so that I won't be at risk of inadvertently unfollowing them in the future.
Reach out
I also used Circloscope's filters to find my Facebook friends that were not following me back on Google+. I put them all in a special circle and sent them a brief "Hi, Facebook Friend" message mentioning that I just found them here on Google+ and thought we should connect here as well (about half of those have already followed me back).
That's it!
I hope you found this tutorial useful and that you are able to connect with many of your Facebook friends on Google+ as a result! If you have any questions about this process just let me know in the comments.