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Americans Have Enough Friends. They just want more time with them. (www.theatlantic.com)

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months 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.