[charliepark]

This is actually really interesting. There's a way to fine-tune my newsfeed? (I'm not trolling here; I've honestly never heard about this.) Facebook has provided very little actual value to me, mainly because the signal-to-noise ratio has been so low.

I've seen those options under my friends' accounts ("lists", right? "close friends", "acquaintances", etc.?) ... is that where I'd do that? Is that something they see (I don't want to offend people by demoting them to "acquaintances", but if I can do that without them seeing, that'd be great).

Honestly, Facebook would be a lot more valuable to me if they had some sort of basic tutorial explaining what's going on with it and how I can make it work for me. As it is, all I use it for is as a slightly glorified birthday reminder.

If you have any resources to that end (how to tune your feed), I'd love to hear about them.

[charliepark]

For anyone looking for info on this, this is a good post: How do I use lists to organize my friends? (https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=200538509990389)

Basically: you can move friends to "acquaintances", they won't see that status change, and their posts will only rarely show up in your feed.