[HN Gopher] Men are rapidly losing their close friends, poll finds
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       Men are rapidly losing their close friends, poll finds
        
       Author : elorant
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2021-06-26 20:33 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | version_five wrote:
       | I wish the article had some info on the potential cause. I could
       | only speculate.
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       | Anecdote, I'm 40, and I notice my younger male friends actually
       | seem to have closer male friendships than I and my same age peers
       | would have had, specifically more open about feelings, affection,
       | basically things you'd be less likely to find and older
       | generation man expressing. I wonder if it's like so many other
       | disparities we see, where there are more very close friendships,
       | more loners, and fewer people in the middle ground.
        
         | elorant wrote:
         | There's more data on the links:
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         | https://www.americansurveycenter.org/research/the-state-of-a...
        
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