Also, don't know if you know about this option: if there are certain people you'd like to keep on your friends list, but whose journals you only read occasionally, you can set up a filter so those people don't appear on your friends view.

Thankyouthankyouthankyou! You're a lifesaver (quite possibly literally ;) ).

Hmm... So *that's* how people manage to keep up with a 200+ friends list? :)