or turn off updates from friends or your friends. I can't keep up with the friends I have, let alone their friends. - Gary H

Gary, you can turn off updates from friends of friends. If you see it, click on "Hide", "More hide options" and you can find the option there, as "Hide ALL stuff from friends-of-friends". - Louis Gray

I just want the ability to create subsets of friends without doing it in an RSS reader. - Ryan Brenizer

I'm big on filtering too. FF doesn't have as much noise as GReader, but filters would be nice. - Mike Reynolds

Holy cow, yes. I would *love* to be able to filter out all the political posts... - Matthew Freeman from Alert Thingy

Actually, Friendfeed should highlight all entries containing 'ubuntu' imho. ;) - roel

haha hide ubuntu ;) - Tyler Gillies

It would be nice to work the other way and bump up stories containing a keyword of your choice. Kind of like track, Would be useful to follow discussion on your company - Jamie

Sounds like a perfect job for a Greasemonkey script. - TranceMist

Couldn't agree more! - Matt

If you hide a conversation, do all of the FF apps hide it too? Also, is it possible to hide a conversation from w/in Alert Thingy or Twhirl? - Bob

There is an urgent need to PRIORITIZE (recommend) new/unread Friendfeed items by personal relevance/importance. Is anyone working on this? In its current incarnation, Friendfeed is an unwieldy mess and time waster compared to Google Reader. - Sean McBride

I think some of this was the idea behind "rooms" where someone could, say, create an "obama" room and everyone (how do they find out?) would join up and then only post obama stuff to that room and not in the general feed. Then it'd be up to you to join that room or not. Then it also filters accordingly, too. - lilbyrdie

but don't things that you post in a room still show up to everyone following you? - Thomas Hawk

Thomas, only if your followers also belong to that room. - Mark Trapp

ahhhhh, ok, that's what I wasn't getting. That makes more sense now. Thanks Mark. - Thomas Hawk

Or just use a client to apply the filters. Anyone know of one? - Roberto Bonini

What Gary H said. The ability to turn off originating posts from friends of friends. - Bryan Nystrom

Step By Step Directions...1) Click 'Hide' on a Friend of a Friend entry. 2) Click 'See options for hiding other items like this'. 3) Select the option you want and select 'Hide Entries'. - Charlie Owen

Ha Ubuntu....Wait! - Anthony Farrior

sounds like a job for the greasemonkey filter script...via feedalizr - Ben Reierson

Personally I like the friend of a friend feature - gives more variety. Just so long as you have a limited number of friends and/or subscribe to Scoble and his 10000 friends. - Roberto Bonini

FILTERSSSSz!! and tags so I can SORT and categorize my own feed stuff! Need to be able to organize the slew of stuff I see in my feed...grows daily! wow! - Susan Beebe

I would name my filter, Dave Winer. - Mike Lewis