It's nice but not all friendships can be maintained or forged. I was a military family so I moved around a lot. And this was pre-social media, so I lost all my

It's nice but not all friendships can be maintained or forged. I was a military family so I moved around a lot. And this was pre-social media, so I lost all my elementary school friends when I moved. So, no "childhood friends" to lean on". And it happens naturally as well when you go to college and likely graduate. Lot of my middle/high school connections spread out doing the same as me, finding their next step in their career. I'd be surprised if most people knew more than 1-2 people at their first job. So you gotta either work hard on old relationships from afar or find new ones. It's especially important if you are trying to find a mate. I'm not sure I heard of many deep romantic relationships that were started virtually with no physical contact for months. >perience and more easily when young - that's just my personal experience I know its different for others. And they cannot be primarily virtual or they wilt. There's that too. We're social creatures and a screen can't satisfy everyone. Men in particular are also just horrible at updates. I don't know how you can communicate for 20 minutes with someone you haven't talked to in a year and casually mention "oh yea, I'm married now and am expecting a kid in 3 months". Really shows how isolated you can feel with someone you thought you knew inside out. >I feel like if there was any sense of an intentional attempt to make friends I would push back and away. Of course your experience is different because friendships come in many forms. Well that's the difficult part of modern friend forming. It's a two way street and we're in days where even your second place might be virtual. There's no school or parents to make people mesh together. You need not only to create events but the recipient needs energy to participate. You can do everything right but some people will simply not want to meet you halfway.