According to a recent study, Americans don’t have as many friends as they did 20 years ago. Most of the people on this survey said they either had 0, 1 or 2 friends! No wonder docs prescribe so much Zoloft in this country.
Anyway, this article made me wonder what the implications of SNS (social networking software) will be– Will people claim to have more “friends” or will the vast majority of these “connections” be just a line and a dot on a browser screen? I think people will need sustained interaction with their acquaintances in order to consider them friends for the sake of this sort of questionnaire.
Also, I wonder what the same survey would produce if taken in Europe. And, rapidly expanding areas like Asia, where the workforce seems even more nomadic.. I imagine it would be hard to maintain friendships with former colleagues with a dizzying pace of work-life.
Via FutureWire - futurism and emerging technology: The Friend-less American
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