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The problem seems to ultimately always boil down to "I added far too many people to Facebook as friends, and now Facebook is useless!"

To which the solution is easy: cut down the number of people you are friends with on Facebook.

For me, I have < 30 people I've friended on Facebook. But they're real friends and family, people I know and want to keep in touch with. And that's made all the difference to how I use Facebook.