I've "lost" double digit friends in the last 5 years alone (they are still my friends technically, just don't talk or hang out nearly as often anymore). Looking

I've "lost" double digit friends in the last 5 years alone (they are still my friends technically, just don't talk or hang out nearly as often anymore). Looking back I notice that my parents also had a dramatic decline in friends after a certain age so it may be a common thing. A theory of mine is that big families were once a thing because it was a way to have built in friends well after 30. When you have 5 adult kids and many grand kids I imagine you never feel like you don't have a lot of friends as the large family serves as a proxy for that kind of companionship. That being said I wonder how social media will impact this. The majority of my ex friends still follow me, and I talk to many of them multiple times a week via group text.