Would you install a Facebook App that Randomly Deletes Your “Friends”?

Friend Fracker (2013) by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is an API art that randomly unfriends 1-10 people on your Facebook account. I admire how such a simple algorithm based on randomness could help you reveal who your true friends are, and serves as a larger commentary on human relationships in the digital age. The algorithm is elegantly simple, randomly select 1 to 10 friends in your Facebook account, and delete them. Additionally, an added layer privacy is also added for Friend Fracker uses Facebook’s standard authentication and security service, therefore it doesn’t track your password nor private information. Your deleted friends wouldn’t know that you unfriend them, and neither would you.