After college I made a list of "who would I avoid (or maybe not even recognize) if I saw them out in public" and removed them from my friend list.
After that came the "baby photo" stage - if someone posted too many images that didn't interest me, I told Facebook that I wasn't interested in seeing updates from those people anymore.
Similar to the Facebook gaming spam a few years back, I simply just removed updates from any site or app that contained content I wasn't interested in seeing anything from (BuzzFeed, Upworthy, Zynga games, etc).
My newsfeed is now a finely tuned machine, where I get updates from my close circles and occasionally from news sites I enjoy.
Point being, you can virtually customize Facebook as much as you want so I'm not sure what the disconnect is here. I wouldn't expect Gmail to be perfectly tailored to my preferences the first time I created an account. I figure the same thing applies with Facebook.