You can hide people from your news feed. You can also make a list of friends and the default publishing privacy setting so only that list can see things. There

You can hide people from your news feed. You can also make a list of friends and the default publishing privacy setting so only that list can see things. There is no need to break the connection. With the type-ahead in composing messages and the search, you don't need to look through a list of friends. Also, if you never pay attention to people, the algorithms on various parts of the site will make it so their content doesn't bubble up as much, even indirectly. An example might be the games presented in the gaming dashboard http://www.facebook.com/?sk=games http://www.facebook.com/?sk=games