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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[-] Blackout@fedia.io 21 points 4 months ago

Damn, missed the day they were handing them out again. Think you have enough friends, just move to the Midwest where everyone will be pleasant but no one will have the time to do anything.

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