For this purpose you can create a custom list of your friends you really want to follow. Update types can be filtered on list pages, for example show only status updates and photos, but no games, comments, etc.
Then bookmark the url of the list page (like https://www.facebook.com/lists/{list-id} ), and use it instead of the default homepage. I use this method for years and it seems much more usable this way.
For this purpose I wrote a script which is run every minute by cron.
It checks if current IP has been changed since last run, and if yes, sends an API request to my VPS provider to update a DNS A record with the new value.