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unless you've been using a service like Picasa or Flickr to store your photos I bet that most of your pictures are on Facebook it makes sense since you want to put photos where your friends can see them but if you're switching to Google+ or using both networks you should share your pictures on there too I'm Sharon Vaknin for cnet.com here to show you how to move your photos from Facebook to Google+ basically what we need to do is download your Facebook album so that you can easily re-upload them to Google Plus lots of free online tools let you do this but I have a couple favorites as always your best bet is to use Facebook's built-in data downloader because it's a guaranteed safe and proprietary tool the only annoying part about getting your photos this way is that it takes a few hours to a day for Facebook to email you the download link go to your account settings then hit download your information once the download is ready you'll get a zip folder of your facebook info like messages and wall posts and all your photos organized into folders by album but if you're more of a one at now kind of person checkout pickins if it's a free web app that lets you download albums plus any photos that you've been tagged in just go to pick and zip com log in with Facebook head to download and select download all photos if you have a ton of pictures this might take a while I had about 3,500 and it took five minutes the download will come as a zipped folder which you should decompress usually by double clicking it on a Mac or selecting extract all files in Windows you'll see in albums folder with all your albums and a tagged folder with all the photos you've been tagged in once you have your Facebook photos on your computer it's time to head to Google Plus go to view profile then photos and upload new photos here you can create one album at a time you can't upload all your album folders at once click select photos from computer find an album you want to upload select the photos in that folder and hit open once the photos are uploaded give the album a name and hit create album here you can add a comment about the album which will show up in your stream and decide which circles you want to share it with if you want it to be private just enter your own name or email address share it and the album will show up in the streams of the people you shared it with and in the Photos tab on your profile you can always change the album privacy options by going to photos then view all your albums click the album you want to edit and change the visible to option and here's an extra tip unlike Facebook Google+ has a built-in photo editor click on a photo and select actions you can rotate the photo or click Edit photo for coloring effects like cross processing or black-and-white in this view you can also tag people in your photos by selecting add tag and entering the person's name or email address if they're not on Google+ yet so go ahead and move your photo memories to Google+ especially if you think you'll be spending more time there than Facebook and feel free to leave behind any baggage you're ready to retire for more how-to s visit how to see Netcom and feel free to ask me any questions on my Facebook page for seanut I'm Sharon Vaknin and I'll see you on the interwebs