The document presents a proposed algorithm for routing messages in delay tolerant networks (DTNs) like mobile social networks. It evaluates a new social pressures metric (SPM) to detect the quality of friendships between nodes for determining the best routing paths. Prior work on multicopy, single-copy, and erasure-coding routing approaches in DTNs is reviewed. The proposed algorithm routes messages along paths containing nodes in the destination's friendship communities. Simulations show it performs better than three previous benchmark algorithms in terms of delivery ratio, cost, and efficiency.