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I only have one friend from high school I regularly speak to, we met when I was 14. My friends right now I’ve all met in the last 5-6 years, mostly through work or my wife or even my sister’s now fiancé has become a friend, but there is one dude I met randomly at a bar. This is going to offend some people, but if you’re still hanging out with nothing but HS friends in your 30s then you aren’t growing at all as a person. My dad, who with the exception of college, stayed in his hometown until his 50s did not hang out with high school friends much after high school. I’ve found friends tend to come and go with jobs, moving, and the different eras of your life and that’s perfectly ok. It's all downhill from now on, peeps If, like me and most of The Debrief team, the number of friends you have (or rather, don’t) is a source of anxiety, there's a new study which is about to make you feel a whole lot worse about the situation. Thanks, Science. According to a study publish in Royal Society Open Science in which research from Aalto and Oxford University analyzed the mobile phone records of 3.2 million users in Europe for one year, noting who they called, how often and for how long. By looking at calling patterns they found that younger individuals have more ‘contacts’, and that men have more than women until they're 39 years old, at which point women have more contacts. The researchers suggested could be down to interactions with their (now adult) children and other new or close family members. Researchers said that 'females seemed to be generally more focused in their social arrangements than males', which has been supported by other studies which found that 'women appear to have a small number of extremely close same-sex friendships, whereas males do not (they typically have a larger number of more casual same-sex friendships)'. Crucially, the study discovered that the maximum number of ‘connections’ for men and women peaked around the age of 25 years old. In other words: the number of friends (or ‘connections’) you had at 25 is the most you will ever have and they all then steadily decrease for men and women. Meaning it’s all downhill from here. Fantastic. Excellent. Let's all just give up then now, shall we? As well as that, from the age of 45 to 55 there appears to be a ‘plateau’ and then another decline after 55. They attributed these fingers to younger people typically being more 'socially promiscuous', but as we age, we're more likely to invest in fewer but more meaningful relationships. They also found that the average number of contacts who people 'focus their (phone-based) social effort each month' is about 15 people. Like this? You might also be interested in: How To Survive A Friend Break-Up I Got My Friends To Review Me Anonymously. Here's What They Said... Why Do I Always Think People Have More Friends Than Me? Follow Chemmie on Twitter @chemsquier This article originally appeared on The Debrief. Just so you know, whilst we may receive a commission or other compensation from the links on this website, we never allow this to influence product selections - read why you should trust us About WSJ
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The 20s, typically a time of important first experiences, are prime years for meeting your closest lifelong confidantes, researchers sayRachel Collins, left, and Jen Corp, photographed Thursday in Kent, Wash., have been best friends since they met in 2002 at a college orientation. Brooke Fitts for The Wall Street JournalWhat age do you make friends?At 3 years old, children often meet others at playgroup or child care and may be able to name their friends and want to play with them. Sometimes children this age don't have a clear idea who their friends are. By age 4, children usually have friends at preschool or day care.
Is 21 too late to make friends?At any age there are going to be people in your area who are open to forming new friendships. Not everyone has had the same social circle for years and years and isn't interested in meeting anyone else. If you go on sites like Meetup.com you'll see people have created groups catering to all ages.
Is it normal to not have friends at 30?But just because it's difficult to make friends after 30 doesn't mean it's impossible. While one 2020 study found that more than 3 in 5 Americans consider themselves lonely, citing a lack of social support and meaningful interactions as the main cause, it certainly doesn't have to be that way.
At what age do we stop making friends?Apparently This Is The Age When You Stop Making New Friends
It turns out there's an age for when serious new-friend-making stops, and that age is 25. According to a study, the average person's peak mobile phone usage happens at 25, and then it goes downhill from there.
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