
Article Introduction
Today let's start with a set of numbers. This year the social platform Bumble released a large-scale survey. The question was simple: In the past year, did you make any new friends? The result: 52% of adults answered: No. Not a single one.
Does that mean people don't want to make friends? Not necessarily. For example, the AARP (American Association of Retired Persons) also recently released a report covering adults over 30. It found that 95% of adults think friendship is important - 5 percentage points higher than the 2019 figure.
In other words, people value friends more and more at the psychological level, yet they have fewer and fewer real friends in the physical world. Over the past 30 years, the share of U.S. adults reporting they have 'no close friends' has jumped from 3% to 12% - four times as high. Researchers even named this phenomenon 'friendship recession.' A social platform in our own country also ran a survey, and nearly 60% of respondents said they have no more than two true friends.
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