The ideal facebook for me would let me explicitly set a threshold before things become visible. So.. I would create 3 groups. Family, Friends, Acquaintances.

The ideal facebook for me would let me explicitly set a threshold before things become visible. So.. I would create 3 groups. Family, Friends, Acquaintances. Family + Friends status's would always appear. Acquaintances status updates would require 5 likes by other people before they appeared in my stream. All likes from Acquaintances and Friends would be hidden. All app invites from Acquaintances would be hidden. As for companies I like / follow. Individual controls for each would be great. I hardly use Facebook because of the noise. I only have < 60 friends on Facebook and < 10 likes. I can't imagine what it gets like with hundreds of friends. My idea probably wouldn't scale. Would be neat though. Would actually get me using Facebook.