We need friends.

What makes a social relationship “meaningful”?  It is getting even harder for people in my generation to establish any relationships at all, let alone ones that are meaningful.

Duke University (2006) conducted a study and concluded that Americans have decreased the amount of ties they have with people outside of their immediate family. The study compared ten years of data and found that the number of confidants that Americans have has dropped by one third since 1985 (about three confidants to only two).

With the increase in technology many people are working out of the home instead of in the office, friends are being made on MySpace, and classmates e-mail each other and often lose touch at the end of class. All these examples support how it has gotten harder to make and maintain a long term network of social support.

Duke University. (2006). Americans have fewer friends outside the family, duke study shows. Duke University: News & Communications. Retrieved April 6, 2007 from Duke News Communications.

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