AMERICANS HAVE FEWER FRIENDS

A recent survey published by the Survey Center on American Life finds that the majority of Americans have fewer friends than they did three decades ago. Study authors revealed that “Americans report having fewer close friendships than they once did, talking to their friends less often, and relying less on their friends for personal support.”
– Nearly half of all Americans – 49% – reported having fewer than three close friends. This marks a nearly twofold increase from 1990, when less than one-third (27%) of Americans had three or fewer close friends.
– In 1990, 33% reported having 10 or more close friends, compared to just 13% today.
– 12% of interviewees claimed to have zero friends today, up from just 3% friendless Americans in 1990.
* Maybe everyone’s friends are dying off after 30 years?
* Maybe in the age of social media, we’ve learned so much about our friends that they’ve become people we don’t want to hang out with.
* There’s one group that still has lots of friends. People having cookouts in TV commercials.
* Who has time for friends when it takes a good part of the day just to track down a TV show you want to watch, figure out the streaming service, download the app and work your way through the menu to the Play button?
* But mainly, with the internet, there’s just so much more porn now than in 1990.