I saw some research recently that said that about 25% of millennials had precisely zero close friends. I stopped scrolling and stared at that for a second. Could that really be true? Even when I was a dickhead in college and nobody liked me, I still had a small group of very close friends. I am trying to imagine what it must be like, and I can’t. I have had close friends since I was five years old.
My comment as a "right winger." I think my liberal friends/acquaintances are naive and economically ignorant, but they think that I am a threat to society at large (racist, sexist, xeno). Until that gets reconciled, which has to be on their side, this recent phenomenon will only get worse.
the internet has the same effect as living in a big city. When everyone is your neighbor than no one is your neighbor. People who grew up with this technology never had any real neighbors.
We've becoming a closed society, content with being "friends" with a monkey icon on Twitter. Sad days indeed. These "anti-relationship" peeps are loosing key soft-skills that really make the world go 'round. Setting us up for an isolationist society in the metaverse.
Greatest words in English lit: “ Even when I was a dickhead in college and nobody liked me, I still had a small group of very close friends. I am trying to imagine what it must be like, and I can’t.”
My comment as a "right winger." I think my liberal friends/acquaintances are naive and economically ignorant, but they think that I am a threat to society at large (racist, sexist, xeno). Until that gets reconciled, which has to be on their side, this recent phenomenon will only get worse.
the internet has the same effect as living in a big city. When everyone is your neighbor than no one is your neighbor. People who grew up with this technology never had any real neighbors.
We've becoming a closed society, content with being "friends" with a monkey icon on Twitter. Sad days indeed. These "anti-relationship" peeps are loosing key soft-skills that really make the world go 'round. Setting us up for an isolationist society in the metaverse.
I have one close friend, from childhood, and have not seen him in person in years. That’s it. I’m 69.
Greatest words in English lit: “ Even when I was a dickhead in college and nobody liked me, I still had a small group of very close friends. I am trying to imagine what it must be like, and I can’t.”
Incredibly valuable advice. I shared with my nephew. Hopefully, he “get’s it”, sooner than later.
I criticised one of your recent posts. Happy to say I think you got this one absolutely bang on. Coming from someone in the group you are not..