Comment by speedybird

A social network that automatically prunes friends I haven't talked to in years sounds benign. Except I'm quite certain that once they get into the habit of pruning friends without asking me directly, they'll start to distance and/or prune friends for other reasons too. 'The algorithm' deciding who is or isn't a positive influence for me sounds like I'm back in 6th grade and my mother is telling me who I may or may not be friends with. Except 'the algorithm' isn't my mother and I am far less certain that it has the good intentions for me.