In a bit of a wild departure from my typical existential and meandering blog posts, I actually have something incredibly useful to share with you this time ’round, especially for the Facebook socialite in you.
In response to my desperate tweet, “Could someone please invent an app that’ll integrate my Facebook events with my Outlook calendar? I can’t keep things straight!” Eloy shared some great knowledge with me that I simply should not, will not, and cannot keep to myself.
Ever find yourself wondering how in tarnation you’re going to keep all of your Facebook engagements straight? Are you double-booking yourself left and right? Do you have friends asking you whether or not you’re going to such-and-such event that you already RSVPd for (but can’t remember doing so)? Yikes! I feel you. Fear thee not, fellow Facebook Events-lovers! Your Google Calendar can save your day, your week, and your social life!
First, you’ll need to login to Facebook and go to the Events module in the right-hand sidebar.
Then, while you’re in the Facebook Events module, go to “Export Events.”
When you click on that, you’ll be given a pop-up with a link. You copy yours, I’ll copy mine, and we’ll keep them to ourselves like hands of poker. Now let’s head on over to Google Calendar.
Hello, Google Calendar! Scroll down to the bottom, and click on “Add,” as shown by the disco-inspired arrow above.
When the pop-up, um, pops up (why, what else would it do?), select “Add by URL.”
Now here comes the magic. Paste the Facebook Events URL that you copied (and kept to yourself) into the box. Oh gosh, oh gosh, presto change-o, you’ve got yourself some Facebook events on your Google Calendar when you click “Add”!
Most wonderful invention since, um, Facebook and Google Calendar, right?
Get this – it live updates as you accept or decline invitations on Facebook, too, so now you’re completely and connectedly plug ‘n play. No more missed happy hours, no more feeling completely overwhelmed by Facebook’s endless list of things you said you’d attend, no more friends one-upping you on your own social calendar. You are in control of your social life yet again. And hey, so is Google, but whatever.
Thanks Fayza! You are awesome!
Wow! Really awesome post!
How did I never realize I could export to my calendar? I’m a little stupid. Thanks for the tip!
That’s very helpful, didn’t know you could do that!
And my main take away is, those are the best darn multi-colored arrows on a how-to file I have EVER seen. Just awesome!
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WARNING: this post changed my life, and may changes yours, too.
wow.
does not work for facebook “page” events
I don’t actually know what you mean by that. Anything on your Facebook Events Calendar will transfer. Explanation?
Thank you so much!
I did what you suggest and events don’t appear in my google calendar.
I tried to sign out and sign-in but still nothing.
Any clue about what could be going wrong by any chance ??
You. Are. Amazing.
Thanks SO much for the tip and in return I promise to never say anything bad about Houston again. Well, at least until I go back to visit again.
Great post! However, is there a way to do the reverse? Can you export google calendar events to your facebook events?
Did you find oout how to do the reverse?
>I don’t actually know what you mean by that. Anything on your Facebook Events Calendar will transfer. Explanation?
@mike isn’t talking about events in your Personal Profile
What @mike meant was that when you set up a “Page” on FaceBook for people to “Become Fans” of, and then you create Events, on that Page, there is no way to export the “Page’s” events calendar into a Google Calendar.
how do you do it now that facebook has a new layout. I cant figure out how to do it.
It’s the same thing, except now, your Events icon is down at the bottom of your screen. See where it says “Applications,” and there are a grouping of icons? Yup, there. That’s the only difference.
Any word on truly ‘syncing’ events back and forth? Right now, I only am able to export from FB to Google Calendar. …same question as Ben above.
That’s all I’ve been able to do myself. I haven’t delved any further as of late.
Thanks for this. I used the My Calendar app on Facebook for a bit until it stopped working. Now I don’t know where I am on what day. I have one on Myspace that I use but it always displays as one day after the actual event on the calendar. Might try synchronising with a Google one as you shown above.
Facebook has redesigned once again, and there’s no “Export Events” link.
You can still do it with the even ‘newer’ layout, but it takes longer because you have to export each event individually…
I followed the “Events Help” until I came up with the below:
How do I export my events to another calendar?
You can export your Facebook events into many other scheduling program…
You can export your Facebook events into many other scheduling programs, such as Apple iCal, Microsoft Outlook, and Google Calendar. To do this, please follow the directions below:
1. Click the “Export” button that appears below the photo on any particular event‘s page, or go to the Events page and click the “Export Events” link to export all of your upcoming events.
2. Save the events to your computer as an “.ical” file, and import the events using your preferred scheduling program.
When exporting individual events, clicking the “Export” button may automatically import the event to your computer’s default scheduling program.
OR — You can hit up the FB application and use IT, works the same as the export link used to… (Just found it or would have posted it with my last post)..
what fb application?
Looking for this option, try http://www.fbcal.com. It does sync Facebook events and Facebook birthdays with your calendar application.
Yay, this is wonderful. Thank You so much. I had added the My Calendar app to my Facebook but it no longer appears anywhere on my FB page or on the home page. I have to click on it to access it and it no longer posts to my fb page either. The calender thing in Facebook is good is not that good since it doesn’t really let my friends know where I am. Which, given my ‘virtual’ non-existence (mind the pun) can be a good thing.
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