Soldato
Just set security settings and hide/delete people who annoy you. You can set who sees photos etc. It really isn't hard or time consuming to go through the settings.
Not exactly hard, or a need to study it is there:
I've used it for over a year now and only found that page a few months ago.
And whenever they update/alter things they tend to "opt in" on your settings, i think one of the recent changes let 3rd party web sites see YOUR personal info if your FRIEND used the 3rd party site ...