Facebook notifications?

[Ryan]

The past couple weeks I have been getting notifications on facebook on my phone that one of my friends updated their status. It only happens for some of my friends and the notification comes in several hours after they update their status. These friends are NOT marked as "close friends" and they are NOT marked to send notification to me unless it directly involves me. I also did NOT comment on their status that it tells me they updated and I am not following that status. Does anyone know how to fix this? I only want to see these statuses in the news feed rather than get notifications about it.