Facebook Testing New News Feed, SMS Follow Options for Friends

Facebook friendship has historically been a very mutual relationship: when you become “friends” with another user, you gain access to their profile and their updates show up in your stream (and vice versa) by default. Last year, however, Facebook created more granular privacy controls and friend lists allowing users to limit how much information is shared with particular friends. And now, Facebook is testing a new feature allowing users to choose whether or not they want to show updates from friends in their stream at all inside friend requests.