Syncing iphone takes forever because of Backup! How do I fix?

I don't ever sync my phone because of this seemingly ENDLESS backup every time i connect my iphone to my Itunes. Any ideas???

Bingo! It was the Facebook app, for me anyway.
I had noticed my backups were getting slower and slower - after first upgrading to 2.1 the slow backups of 2.0 were solved and were typically taking under a minute, but that has gradually climbed to nearly 20 minutes EVERY time I do a sync.
After reading your comment about Facebook I used "iPhone Backup Extractor" to look at the backups that iTunes has been doing of the Facebook app, to find that there was 46MB worth of backups for the Facebook application alone - comprised of 2747 small data files and images.
So I deleted the Facebook app from the Phone, (which also deletes its cached data) performed a sync/backup, noticed that the backup went much faster this time, and then reinstalled the Facebook app, and backups are now still fast. (for now)
As far as I'm concerned this is a bug with the facebook app - it doesn't seem to place any limits on the amount of data it caches, it just keeps growing and growing, and the data it caches is marked for "backup by itunes". (An app can flat whether it's data should be backed up by itunes or not)
The Facebook app should place a more reasonable limit on the amount of data and number of files it is caching, and it should flag its cache data as not requiring backup by itunes - who cares if cached data is lost during a backup/restore ??
Regards,
Simon

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