Americans Are a Lonely Lot, and Young People Bear the Heaviest Burden

Re:Americans Are a Lonely Lot, and Young People Bear the Hea... by curun1r on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @01:46PM (#16969382)

This is so true. And we're inundated with images and stories of "better" people who we'd rather be friends with thanks to social media and celebrity idolitry which makes us not want to settle for the healthier, more realistic options we have for friendships. Also "better" isn't actually better, it's only the appearance of better from highly curated public perceptions.

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Re:Americans Are a Lonely Lot, and Young People Bear the Hea... by whitepoplar on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @01:58PM (#16969537)

Yes, exactly. I vividly remember the first day I met my cabin mates at summer camp when I was younger. I thought I'd won the reverse lottery--the lamest group of people I'd ever encountered in my entire life. Still friends with some of them nearly two decades later. :)

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Re:Americans Are a Lonely Lot, and Young People Bear the Hea... by jacobush on Tuesday May 01, 2018 @03:03PM (#16970297)

Allegedly this is how the draft used to work in Sweden.

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