| ▲ | JumpCrisscross 8 hours ago |
| > it's definitely not "most" EDIT: Correct. About a fifth of Americans report having zero friends; another fifth report feeling lonely sometimes [1]. [1] https://www.theglobalstatistics.com/us-loneliness-statistics... |
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| ▲ | danilafe 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Not to be overly pedantic, but isn't that not "most", out of even Americans? |
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| ▲ | JumpCrisscross 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | > isn't that not "most", out of even Americans? Yes. Edited for clarity. The only American demo that is majority lonely is Gen Z (two thirds). | | |
| ▲ | belowavgiq 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yup, and this is my age range.
I guess I should have specified, knowing the average age on HN is... just a little higher to say the least.
But to a progressively lower extent it applies to older generations as well. |
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| ▲ | spacechild1 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| > About a fifth of Americans report having zero friends Wow, that's depressing... |
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| ▲ | vlyan 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | you're highly unlikely to make friends once you're an adult and everyone's walls had gone up. most of those 4/5 just call their superficial acquaintances "friends". a real friend is essentially a platonic partner, and most people are lucky if they develop even one such friendship in their lifetime. I've lost one to distance and another to marriage, so even though I have "friends", I consider myself to be in the 1/5 too. |
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