[djtidau]

This is true, information overload is a serious problem that much greater minds than mine work to tackle. Though personally I want to have a little more control over my stream.

Google+ had an attempt at this with giving a kind of ranking to certain circles depending on how noisy you want them to be. For me that is a much better approach as I am more involved in making such a choice. Though then comes the issue of giving the user too much work.

There are two sides to each coin I guess though in this case I do feel it is weighted more toward boosting FB's share price rather than truly looking out for their users.

[graeme]

Facebook does effectively allow you some control. If you click on a post/hover over it/like it/comment you'll see a lot more posts from that source.