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In general, social networks can be a good thing; the only problem is when the noise level becomes too high to have any meaning when it comes to sharing information. Over the last few months, Facebook games have exploded as Farmville and Mafia Wars get more and more players. The only problem with this is the amount of spam messages these games send across the reading pane of people who really do not care that your duck became a swan in Farmville.

There is no way to suppress these kinds of messages. People are stuck with a never ending string of success stories from people who need help in Mafia Wars, got some new prize in Farmville, or some other prize, flair, junk, or otherwise that tend to drown out the things I do want to see and why I have made people friends.

There has to be a way to suppress game messages and other flair, junk, other stuff but once you make someone your friend – you are stuck with the inanity of the crowds. You are stuck with the constant chatter of the games that people are playing when you would much rather b