Just so you know, you can be friends with a person but 'unsubscribe' from him/her so that the person's posts and updates no longer show up in your newsfeed. I'v

Just so you know, you can be friends with a person but 'unsubscribe' from him/her so that the person's posts and updates no longer show up in your newsfeed. I've started unsubscribing from people en masse recently and it's really gone a long way towards making facebook more pleasant to use, though of course it still has its problems when it comes to privacy, commercialism, distraction, etc.