Adjusting system actions, user profiles and content in a social network based upon detected skipped relationships

A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a device to cause the device to:

• detect absence of connection acceptance by a plurality of users in a computer-implemented social networking system despite repeated recommendations by the social network application to connect;
• correlate patterns of the absence of connection acceptance of the plurality of users;
• cluster the plurality of users with common patterns of absence of connection acceptance into a cluster of users;
• determine a cause of a skipped relationship, the cause of the skipped relationship including a reason as to why at least one of the plurality of users has intentionally skipped accepting a connection request;
• and
• apply the determined cause to a user in the cluster with a confidence value according to cluster membership strength associated with the user in the cluster, the applying including at least updating the cluster of users,
• responsive to detecting a new connection, which breaks the determined cause of a skipped relationship, by the user in the cluster, discard the new connection as an outlier in the patterns based the confidence value.

A system for adjusting a system action based on an absence of relationship acceptance, comprising:

• a storage device;
• and
• a processor communicatively coupled to the storage device, the processor running a social network application operable to detect absence of connection acceptance by a plurality of users in a computer-implemented social networking system despite repeated recommendations by the social network application to connect,
• the processor further operable to correlate patterns of the absence of connection acceptance of the plurality of users,
• the processor further operable to cluster the plurality of users with common patterns of absence of connection acceptance into a cluster of users,
• the processor further operable to determine a cause of the skipped relationship, the cause of the skipped relationship including a reason as to why at least one of the plurality of users has intentionally skipped accepting a connection request, and
• the processor further operable to apply the determined cause to the users in the cluster with a confidence value according to a cluster membership strength associated with the user in the cluster, applying the cause including at least updating the cluster of users,
• the processor further operable to, responsive to detecting a new connection, which breaks the determined cause of a skipped relationship, by the user in the cluster, discard the new connection as an outlier in the patterns based the confidence value.