Comment 8 for bug 534906

I want to use the same contacts in empathy that I use in evolution, in my smartphone, in ubuntuone, in linkedin, in openldap etc. Today there are much the same people but I have to update information at several places and add new contacts not in one application but several. I have to remember what media / social forum / what database / handset / application I find information of a particular person. My contact list is not the same in my phone that i find in empathy or evolution. Do I have him/her in jabber, msn, evolution or in my job phone? No she is not online I better email or call her on cell instead...

If its possible to export/import contacts to empathy it helps to maintain updated information in all applications at daily use.

For example there is very hard to export the contact list from facebook, but empathy has it (thru the jabber protocoll)