Why the average American hasn’t made a new friend in 5 years
Forty-five percent of adults say they find it difficult to make new friends, according to new research.
A new study into the social dynamics of 2,000 Americans revealed that the average American hasn’t made a new friend in five years.
In fact, it seems for many that popularity hits its peak at age 23, and for 36 percent, it peaks even before age 21.
The study, conducted by OnePoll in conjunction with Evite, uncovered that one of the reasons 42 percent of adults struggle to make friends is due to introversion or shyness (((pussifacation and cuckdom))).
And the challenge is not just in breaking out of their shell but also breaking into new social situations and circles.
The majority of respondents cite friendship-making barriers that include aversion to the bar scene where most people choose to socialize, or the feeling that everyone’s friendship groups have already formed.
And how many friends do adults actually have? Turns out, 16. The average American has three friends for life, five people they really like and would hang out with one-on-one, and eight people they like but don’t spend time with one-on-one or seek out.
Most people have remained close with friends they met when they were younger. Nearly half of those surveyed have stayed friends with peers from high school, and a further 31 percent with peers from college.
Kicking it even more old-school, three in 10 Americans say they have made lasting connections with people they met in their childhood neighborhood.
However, 82 percent of those studied feel like lasting friendships are hard to find. The number one cause of lost friendships is moving away, with 63 percent revealing this to be a reason they’ve fallen out of touch with a former friend.
https://nypost.com/2019/05/09/why-the-average-american-hasnt-made-a-new-friend-in-5-years/
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[–] 18547568? 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
The structure of modern society isn't built for friendships. It's hardly built for any kind of relationship. When you work a full-time job, even a relatively simple one, it eats up more of your time than you realize. Can't stay out late because you've got to be at work tomorrow. A portion of all free time you're going to have in a given week is dedicated to chores, errands, and keeping up your life. Depending on where you live, the taxes and fees you have to pay for everything will likely ensure that you need to be cautious with your money and time anyways, as a foolish endeavor or overinvestment in something could ruin you.
Then you try to factor friends into the equation. They've got their own jobs and responsibilities to tend to. They likely moved somewhere further away, because the job market is such shit that people have to take whatever they can get to stay above water, instead of being able to live where they want and have that work out. It's seems malicious the way all the homes are nowhere near any of the jobs necessary to afford those homes.
Now you're left with limited freetime through your week, low energy from the constant stress, responsibilities piling up because you are away at work and commuting to and from work every day, and you're supposed to go out and find new people to meet, carve some time out of their schedule to attempt to form a friendship, assuming there's an actual possibility for genuine, authentic friendship at all. And if you've already got friends, you're likely constantly in the process of trying to align schedules for a few hours per month just to see each other. Chances are that many of the friends you've held onto over your lifetime have either fallen away, or lost your faith in them. Nothing worse than keeping up with people on Kikebook only to find that they spend all day reposting dozens of lefty feminist memes and ranting about how Trump is turbohitler on steroids.
[–] 18592475? ago
That was done on purpose to make sure everyone buys a (((car))) that will eat up any remaining revenue they have and have to pay for (((gas))) funded by illegal wars and (((insurance))) that will tell you to fuck yourself the moment you actually need it.
[–] 18592476? ago
That has more to do with suburban sprawl, white flight and nigger crime. It's really bad on the east coast where there's less grid planning.
[–] 18571298? ago
Yeah but all so called right wingers will extend shopping and working hours because muh comfort bruh.
I hate this. Close malls and shops at 19:00 on Weekdays and at 16:00 on Saturdays so that a large part of society can mingle with other large groups. Inb4 (((they))) notice and declare the 24h society a socialist paradise.
[–] 18592477? ago
They already do this in Canada.
All that will happen is the streets will be empty at night save for niggers looking for rape victims/houses to loot.
[–] 18570593? ago
That’s the real hook. The normies are literally taking less and less and willingly enslaving themselves because they are such pathetic cucks they can’t say enough is enough. It’s a type of Orwellian hyper industrialization of the human spirit. How far we have fallen, how shitty life has become compared to the Reich or even 50s America. It’s pathetic that these people fear death so much that they will not turn away from it. All the ones who brag about it are the biggest addicts to it. Pretty sad desu
[–] 18570597? ago
The real kicker is despite their fear of death their worship of slave morality makes them beholden to die. Everything is about dying. Die so immigrants can take your place. Die at your job so you can say you were a hard worker. Die in a robbery because self-defense is evil.
The ultimate slave action is to die. And should you take steps against death, you will be hated as someone who "robbed yourself of the ultimate and most holy of sacrifices."
[–] 18570592? ago
We seriously have needed a revamp in labor laws so that people get paid the same for working less. Humans are not supposed to be living like this. Unforunately, immigration, automation, the recession, and the Boomer meme of "work ethic" have destroyed the already existing labor laws we have, and the wages of the jobs should you be lucky enough to have one.