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I have quite a few of online accounts that I use that have contacts within them. Here are a few examples:

  • Gmail (4 accts)
  • Google+
  • FaceBook
  • LinkedIn
  • Outlook.com
  • The list goes on

Within these accounts there some contacts that are unique (i.e. Person A is only found on LinkedIn and Person B is only found on Facebook) and there are a lot of contacts that are the same (i.e. Person C can be found within Facebook, Gmail, Outlook.com, etc,.).

The Problem

The issue that I'm running into is that these contacts are fragmented and not synchronized. For example, Person C has three different sets of information:

Fragmented Info:

PersonC (Facebook) PersonC (Gmail) PersonC (Outlook.com)

  • FB Profile - G+ Profile - Email 2
  • Email 1 - Email 1 - Address
  • Phone

With multiple devices that access these accounts, I would like to have a way where all my contacts are synchronized and merged with each other for all of my devices that I use (computer, phone, tablet, etc,.):

Merged Info:

PersonC

  • FB Profile
  • Email 1
  • Email 2
  • G+ Profile
  • Address
  • Phone

How do I have all of my contacts in a centralized area that synchronizes and merges for most, if not all of my devices?

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James Mertz
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Honestly, the only way this would work is if these services offer the feature to merge with other said services;

This means that unless the services you are mentioning (GMail, LinkedIn, etc.) actually had this feature, it's not possible to do it without either:

1) Finding a piece of software that would both merge and manage your information through each of the services API's.

or

2) Learning the API's of said services and making your own software.