"Earlier this week, Facebook promised a number of changes to appease user concerns about the latest homepage re-design. Users have been noticing these improvements being pushed live to their homepage over the last day or so, and this morning, I finally got them enabled on my account. After doing a bit of tweaking, I’m definitely enjoying my Facebook homepage more than I was the past couple weeks with version 1 of the redesign. I thought I’d share with you a few of these tweaks - designed primarily to reduce information overload - so you can try them on your own account, unless of course you’re happy with the new, new Facebook as-is." - Kol Tregaskes from Bookmarklet

Great article. Thanks Kol. This should help me a lot. Though I will say I'm finding myself bored with Facebook regardless. - Jen (SquirrelGirl)

Funny - I'm the exact opposite. I like Facebook more than other platforms :) - Mona Nomura

No worries, Jen. Mona, I want to hide certain services like FriendFeed, SU ad Digg from RL friends as they are not interested. I've put my RL friends in a list but whatever privacy setting I do they still receive the social media stuff. Any ideas? - Kol Tregaskes

Are you talking about your stuff or theirs? - Mona Nomura

My stuff. - Kol Tregaskes

I have to hide a lot of services because Facebook's completely single column, bad pseudo-3-column design would permit me to overwhelm my personal network with my updates. Can't these guys learn anything from online news magazines? Optimize your space usage! - Glenn Batuyong

Oh - well I don't import any of my external stuff (not even Twitter), since most of my RL friends get overloaded by too many updates. I cross post at times or find completely different things to share. But that's me. I think the most important thing is knowing your audience. Do your Facebook friends really want to see all of your posts? - Mona Nomura

Mona, yeah I turned it off for ages but thought the new groups would help me pinpoint who I shared stuff with. But it doesn't work. I'll probably just turn it off again. I still can't get into FB anyway. - Kol Tregaskes

Mona, I seem to get a lot of "likes" and the odd comment here and there from non-RL peeps. My RL friends comment more on my status updates. - Kol Tregaskes

Grouping is actually for your organizational purposes. I separate my friends by people who are active and people who are inactive to make it easier to filter and keep up with their shares :) - Mona Nomura

I'm hardly ever on Facebook to begin with. I usually find a IM client that supports Facebook chat and use facebook chat. I agree with Mona, I ued to use a app on Facebook called Twittersync. My friends didn't like that and people didn't really like that I was broadcasting my life to facebook. I have Ping.fm post some of my blogs to facebook for me. That's about it though. I don't try to make my friends get overloaded and have get confused as in what the heck is going on. I've turned off a lot of my external feeds for the sake of not losing my friends. - Patrick from twhirl

Reading their stuff is fine. It's sharing my stuff to them that I want to filter by service. When I'm on FB again I'll just turn the lot off again. - Kol Tregaskes