See fresh Facebook status updates via RSS feed from all or some of your friends in one nice list on your phone

1) Visit: http://www.facebook.com/notes.php

2) On the bottom of the column on the right, under the “subscribe to these notes” option, right click and copy the “My Friends’ Notes” URL. Paste the URL into notepad - it should look like this:

http://www.facebook.com/feeds/friends_notes.php?id=XXXXXXXXX&key=XXXXXXXXXX&format=rss20

3) Change the word "notes" to the word "status" so that it looks like this:

http://www.facebook.com/feeds/friends_status.php?id=XXXXXXXXX&key=XXXXXXXXXX&format=rss20

If you would like to see status updates of ALL your Facebook friends, you are done and can use this URL in your favorite RSS reader (skip to step # 7)

4) If you would like to only see updates from specific friends, visit

http://www.facebook.com/home.php

Click "More" at the bottom of the column on the left so you could see the "Create New List" link; click "Create New List", name and create a new list of people you want to see the status updates for.

5) Once you save your list, you should see its name in the column on the left; Right click on it, copy the URL, and paste it into notepad. It should look like this:

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/home.php?filter=fl_############

6) Notice the the number after the "fl_" and add it to the URL from step 3, so that your final URL looks exactly like this (but with numbers/keys):

http://www.facebook.com/feeds/friends_status.php?id=XXXXXXXXX&key=XXXXXXXXXX&format=rss20&flid=############

7) Add the URL from the previous step to your favorite RSS reader as a subscription. I like http://reader.google.com since it works well on the iPhone.

Now you can see all your friend's status updates without visiting Facebook (or looking at ads). Plus if you add other RSS feeds from real news sites, you can see all the news you care about in one nice updated chronological list without visiting any sites - just visit http://reader.google.com instead (or add it to iPhone Home Screen as an icon). Some examples of RSS feeds:

World news: http://news.google.com/news?ned=us&topic=w&output=rss
Top Stories http://news.google.com/?topic=h&num=3&output=rss
Economist http://www.economist.com/rss/daily_news_and_views_rss.xml
News from your zip code: http://news.google.com/news?pz=1&ned=us&hl=en&geo=11235&output=rss

...Just look for other RSS links on your favorite sites...

Enjoy! (Hope Facebook doesn't hide this feature again...)