Well, that's your fault for adding them and considering them your "friends," isn't it?

I don't think your mis-use of Facebook is their fault at all.

It's easy to blame someone for who their friends are, but that's ignoring social norms which end up being set by the Facebook sluts. I think in actuality most people only rarely add friends, but tend to accept almost any friend request from someone they've met in person—it's awkward not to.

My solution to this problem is just to post anything questionable or private to Facebook at all; it's a much more comprehensive solution than hemming and hawing over friend requests.

I don't consider them friends. I think of them as contacts, maybe acquaintances. You know, social connections. Facebook calls them "friends" but that doesn't mean I do.

Coincidentally, Facebook now lets you add people to an "acquaintances" list, and easily set privacy on things to all of your friends except your acquaintances.

So?

And still, you can group friends into lists and share selectively. Just like Circles in Google+.

Sure, but do you? I don't, and I don't see most people taking the time to do that.

No, I don't, and I'm OK with that. And I'm OK with other people not doing that too. I don't mind sharing what I put on Facebook, and I like reading what my (Facebook) friends are doing. So I personally don't mind those changes, at all.

I understand though that many (most? - given the comments under Facebook-related stories) people are not so OK with that.

I've started to for some things, mostly as a courtesy to the viewer over filtering publicly consumable content.