Yes and no. The thing I like about Twitter is it's pretty instantaneous, people are limited to 140 characters (and brevity is always good) and you can tailor it to what you want in your feed.
If all you care about is following certain bands, or stuff about the Bills, then you can follow the bands, or band members, or players, reporters, etc., and that is essentially all you'll see.
Don't like something? Stop following it.
You don't need to 'friend' someone, etc. Just follow or unfollow.
Then again, you yell "Get off my lawn" a lot so you'll probably not like all those pesky kids and their fancy gadgets.