1. When I first logged on to facebook, it asked me something about my email contacts. I just said ok. Next thing I know all these random high school classmates who I have no interest in ever seeing ever again become my "friends". All I want is to have an easy way to cut them out of my life without pissing them off. I'm talking about a way of getting rid of "friends" without insulting them...perhaps they could stop seeing the updates to your profile. However, I don't mind the loss of privacy as much as having these spammy "friends" clogging my profile and showing up all over the interface...

2. I do watch. I watch Internet TV but not regular TV, mostly because it means I can watch any chapter of futurama I want whenever I want. I see two banner ads that probably slow me down 1 second 10% of the time---this is infinitely preferable to trudging through eight minutes of ads for every twenty-two of content. I watch stuff at tv-links.co.uk. Of course, I wish I didn't watch Internet TV at all because I think watching TV is bad in principle.

3. news.yc is just fine.