This is exactly what I was thinking when I read the 'The Facebook experiment has failed' article. It seems like just another case of people not knowing how to filter their wall feed.
I still wish I could switch to an unfiltered mode. I use a service like facebook because I want to keep involved in my friends lives and see all the stuff they post. FB seems to conspire to make the feed/wall experience an echo chamber of the few people you interact with the most. It's precisely the folks I don't interact with most that I want to hear from...
Interesting, I'm not a facebook user, I deleted my account 3 or 4 years ago. Is there a way to setup multiple concurrent filters so you can basically switch modes? So you could have your feed/wall (sorry I'm not great with the fb terminology) show you:
1) Close friends & family
2) Posts related to the subject "Programming"
3) Posts from people who haven't otherwise made it to your wall in the last 30 days.
Basically what level of granularity is currently offered in terms of FB filters, and can you setup multiple ones to switch between them?
Is this an area that FB are currently working on? Seems like this would be a good remedy for people who aren't finding the content they want.
Users are still going to be required to do some work to setup their filters though, I really don't see how you can avoid that though.
I don't know if you can get as fine-grained as "posts relating to programming" or "people you haven't interacted with in X days" but you can add people to "Lists" and then switch your wall view between those lists. One person can be in many lists.