They did offer this for a long time -- you could make friends lists, and then use them to focus on updates that belonged to those friends. You can still make f

They did offer this for a long time -- you could make friends lists, and then use them to focus on updates that belonged to those friends. You can still make friends lists, but sometime in the last 2 years or so, they removed the feature to focus on updates from friends, and the friends lists don't do anything at all other than interact with privacy scope for your posts, which I guess is still nice. IMO FB long ago decided it was going to be guided by metrics rather than theories about utility. Maybe they know better what users want than users do themselves, or maybe they care about other things, either way, the days of power users are done here.