Few weeks ago I decided to use facebook only for messages and events - I blocked the search bar, news feed, and the box on the right (I'm not sure how it's called). I use ublock origin, these are my filters that seem to do that:

https://gist.github.com/t0mk/ce14b1e11c1c0229972b

(I half clicked it, half wrote. It was guessing, I don't really know what the ### does and why jsonp)