The Friendship Paradox
www.theatlantic.com
We all want more time with our friends, but we’re spending more time alone.

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Americans are afflicted by an “epidemic of loneliness,” according to the surgeon general and dozens of researchers. The phrase conjures a nation of friendless hermits who have no one to invite to their birthday parties. But according to a pair of new surveys, American loneliness is more complex than that. The typical American, it seems, texts a bunch of people “we should get together!” before watching TikTok alone on the couch and then passing out. That is, Americans have friends. We just never really see them.

  • @some_guy
    3•12 days ago

    I wouldn’t mind another friend or two, but I’m doing pretty well with the handful of high quality friends I’ve got. Feeling lucky, even.