I think it's even more detailed than that. You can select for each person what kind of update you are shown. Then you can go to your preferences and choose not to see people's stories about games they played and/or block aps that you don't use that keep showing up with news stories. Tell him to poke around in the preferences/settings as well as "editing" that particular person. Unfortunately, there's no way to block some of the stuff, like "I'm going to bed now." And "I just ate some toast that didn't agree with me." Ugh! I hate these kinds of posts.

Yes, I had to do that this morning. I think the info is going around the web, hopefully most people will hear about it one place or another.

I hope so (about the birthdays). My friend couldn't find hers. As for the groups, I used to be able to search groups through the main page. I can't find that option yet, but I'll keep on looking.

It's not usually sent to them in an email or anything, but they can see that you've posted new pictures. If they have their facebook open, on the page where it shows what all your friends are doing, it will say, "Kat has posted new pictures", and then they can click on it to see. If you post it directly into your Wall and not into your albums, the picture will just show up automatically on their News Feed. Do you agree with me about that? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH