Can't we solve this by allowing users to internally rate their friends? I think Facebook already does that. Notice they put lists in your profile now called "F

Can't we solve this by allowing users to internally rate their friends? I think Facebook already does that. Notice they put lists in your profile now called "Friends", "Close Friends", "Acquaintances", etc. The one thing that annoys me about this notion is that those relationships change IRL. What if I suddenly want to have a party and invite only my "Close Friends", which then ends up including some guy I very much hate by now? One of the biggest problems with social network evaluation schemes is that they always work on the assumption that relationships between people are static. They are, however, dynamic. And the rate of dynamics changes from person to person and changes over time as well. It's not as simple as saying "this guy makes the best content ever". Maybe tomorrow his dog will die and he'll start posting emo poems.