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You know you can turn them off right? https://www.facebook.com/editaccount.php?notifications

Facebook changes stuff all the time, and thus I would have to keep tweeking the settings. Instead, it all just goes into a circular file at Google which I empty from time to time.

And that's why Google+ circles don't aren't really a game changer - it doesn't significantly reduce the friction of managing notifications except for the small segment of people who are already interested in managing those notifications.

Not the mail stuff they don't. I have not received an email from facebook since 2006, so no worries really.

I had all e-mail notifications turned off from when I first logged into facebook. When they added the new groups I started getting e-mails again. I have to go into settings about once a month to turn off the e-mails in some different part of facebook.

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