granted you live near the person, i consider a friend someone you work into your schedule and make sure to hang out/go out with them.

for distance, really just have to speak to them on a weekly basis.

all subjective though.

Smartphones to blame tbh

my friendships w hookers on the INCLINE

A good 5, then

Shawty making generalizations tho

Also how many people work in industries where making sincere connections is part of the job description (e.g. musicians, dancers, etc. )

I feel her but this doesn’t apply to everyone

Like Americana said I’ve had bad fights with my boys and we come back cause the foundation is strong. I’ve met women who literally make friends using dating apps and they’ll call em bestie after a few months.

Neither of these apply to everyone though, I’ve def met dudes who have friends and they don’t talk about s***, but also maybe they do and consciously choose not to let it ruin the friendship

This is cap and gender war nonsense. You can’t become best friends with someone without talking about real s***

More like men don’t hate each other for being men and women friendships “don’t last” as often cause they live in a society that tells them womanhood is bad therefore they internalize that and hate other women for it, so it’s just waiting to bubble up in an altercation at any second

Like ppl can spend all day on their phone (me included) without having to have contact w a single person. Even when in social spaces ppl never be sparking of conversations anymore. Feel like that outside of class or work it’s genuinely hard to meet ppl irl.

Growing up with 12 cousins who all lived a half hour from me and were my age was definitely a bonus

i hang out with my enemies, at least i know what to expect

too busy getting money (I'm in massive debt)

Except it was literally a study during the pandemi moore vro

washingtonpost.com/road-to-recovery/2020/11/30/male-bonding-covid

this so foreign to me bro

gparents dead before i was born and my parents both only children

got no aunts, uncs, cousins, etc.

now i finally got a nephew but kids like 4mos old and 2k miles away imma never see the bugger

Period

• For more than a decade, psychologists have written about the “friendship crisis” facing many men. One 2006 a***ysis published in the American Sociological Review found that while Americans in general have fewer friends outside the family than they used to, young, White, educated men have lost more friends than other groups.*

Making a concerted effort to turn my phone off when I’m in social spaces this year has helped me kinda ween off it slowly.

is there a single thing that isnt on the decline

the rich getting richer

A lot of studies that speak on men in the US overall are gonna be almost exclusively accurate to the white male experience cause they’re the overwhelming majority of men in the US

It’s important to keep that in mind

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Real

I disagree.