I’ve moved away from using Facebook because it’s too cluttered for me. Too much sharing, to many different columns (though I noticed the activity window no longer shows up for me), etc. For some, it’s great, for me it became noise, and I deleted all my friends on FB except for close family and friends. I am looking at a better way to follow certain people you can subscribe too, but I haven’t figured how to do that yet because of the following reasons:
1) Facebook constantly forgets my wall settings and reverse to “Highlighted Stories First” instead of “Recent Stories First”
2) Facebook hides too much. The more I “unlike” pages and people, the more stuff suddenly shows up that was being hidden before. It’s too unreliable.
Any suggestions for those who want to follow public Facebook updates but not have to use the Facebook interface?