I've spent much of the last 6 months defriending Right Wingers

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17. I'm with you - I'm allergic to assholes!

I have a few tricks I'm currently using to make Facebook suck less.

1. I use Social Fixer to automagically fix some of Facebook's brain damage like the constant Farmville posts & such - Social Fixer automagically filters them.

2. I created a new friends list that I call Dunbar's Circle, named after Dunbar's number, the theoretical cognitive limit to the number of meaningful relationships you have, which is estimated to be somewhere in the 150-200 range. My criteria for anyone I put into Dunbar's Circle:

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I must know you in meat-space. In other words, I met you in person, not just over the Internet.

I must feel I have some sort of substantial relationship with you - family member, friend, coworker, and that this relationship is something I want to cultivate. Dunbar's Circle is for people I want to associate with. Sorry, that means the old high-school acquaintance I haven't seen in 15 years probably won't make the cut.

I cap the list at 200 members, max. And right now, my Dunbar's Circle is quite a bit smaller.[/list]

A cool side-effect of going straight to Dunbar's List on Facebook is that I bypass much of the advertising and fluff and net.assholes that clutter up my Facebook feed, and Facebook again becomes a place where I can see what my friends are up to.

Now I'm going to have to create a Dunbar's Circle in Google+.

3. I have a Restricted List on Facebook for people, like right-wing family members that you don't want to deal with, but can't unfriend without creating a shitstorm. Then I have my status updates automatically set to be visible to Friends except Restricted.