I'm late to the party, but I'll chime in anyway... Keeping up with friends can only work if one has friends; We are more isolated than ever. I always blamed th

I'm late to the party, but I'll chime in anyway... Keeping up with friends can only work if one has friends; We are more isolated than ever. I always blamed the boring suburbs/built environment for this, but Japan has the same problem, so idk. The poll of 1,254 adults aged 18 and older found that 27 percent of millennials have no close friends, 25 percent have no “acquaintances” and 22 percent — or 1 in 5 — have no buddies at all. Japan’s Kyodo news agency reported On the 12th, citing the results of the survey, 31.3 percent of Japanese surveyed said they had no close friends, far higher than the United States, Germany and Sweden. "Every empire contains the seeds of its own destruction" -G.W.F. Hege