A Simple, Nifty Trick For Cleaning Up Your Facebook News Feed

Is your Facebook friends list bloated to near unusable levels? Perhaps try this simple strategy.

This week, in an enormous feat of determination, New York's Kevin Roose nuked his Facebook friends list after years of letting it balloon into a hugely messy confluence of acquaintances and strangers. It would prove to be no easy task: He had nearly 2,789 Facebook friends, and wanted to cut it down to about 100 close friends and family, plus 500 others. "By pruning my account to include just the stuff I wanted to see," he wrote, "I would see if New Facebook could be made to feel like the Old Facebook I loved, or if it was beyond repair."

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