except that, for me at least, the new Facebook is filled with noise to an extent that Twitter won't be for a long time. I only follow people that I actually wa

except that, for me at least, the new Facebook is filled with noise to an extent that Twitter won't be for a long time. I only follow people that I actually want to know about. But being a Facebook friend, up until now, has been much more than seeing occasional newsfeed updates. I've never said "I'll be friends with this person so I'll see their stati," it's always, "I'll be friends so that they can invite me to parties and write on my wall." Over the last couple days, I've been frantically hiding newsfeed updates from people that I don't care about. Twitter has the advantage over Facebook in that really the only reason to follow someone is to get their tweets. Soon, friending someone and hiding their updates will be something I think of as one action on Facebook.