Pleiades

If you are super concerned about Facebook's new system, scroll to the bottom of your page, click "Edit Options" and then "Manage Subscriptions". You'll see a list of all your friends with grey "subscribed" buttons on the side. Hovering over the grey button will give you a list of options. You can change "Most updates" to "All updates" for people you especially want to keep track of, and you can check and uncheck various types of updates you want to see (ie, I want to see all of Mom's status u...