I know just what you mean there, Fr00d. I have lots of family members on mine, not to mention family of real life friends, so if I were to use Facebook the way it's meant to be used and said what's on my mind at any given time, I'd attract a lot of attention from uncomfortable quarters. One compromise I've adopted is to group certain contacts together into, well, groups, and that does at least allow me the option of targetting my thoughts and opinions towards only those specific contacts. Using this method I can also hide my status updates from specific groups as well if need be.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'