>"The poll of 1,254 adults aged 18 and older found that 27 percent of millennials have no close friends, 25 percent have no “acquaintances” and 22 percent — or 1 in 5 — have no buddies at all. This compares with only 9 percent of Baby Boomers and 15 percent of Gen Xers who reported having zero chums."
This can't be healthy, either on an individual basis or for society in general. Imagine having no friends and reaching your thirties with no romantic experience. It's painful to think about.
at least from my perspective, society has become insanely impersonal. if you are not already part of a friend group, then no one really wants anything to do with you. people already have their established groups and dont really want to venture outside them
Gavin Gray
I'm Gen X and I was doing this WAY before it became popular with Millennials
Mason Parker
They are lonely because they alienated everyone by virtue signalling at them and calling them racist or xenophobic, blah, blah, blah. Who wants to talk to a virtue signaller?
The reality is much, much higher than that, most people are utterly deluding themselves and have no idea what a friend actually is.
Blake Edwards
Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
Evan Johnson
Jewd
Dylan Cook
I have close friends, but I don't hang out with them unless it's just with them. This isn't by choice, they probably just don't want me around their OTHER friends.
Jeremiah Lee
>27 percent of millennials have no close friends hahahahah what a bunch of losers
Anthony Mitchell
this
Chase Richardson
the social media jew.
Joshua Perez
>18+ >Millennial Why do they keep doing this? If you're 18, you weren't even fucking alive during the millennial. 24 is the objective cutoff.
Just say "young people" for fuck's sake. The tail end of "millennial" is already at 37-38 years old.
Parker Cooper
Millennial reporting in: All my male peers are faggots or niggers, all my female peers are roasties rapidly screaming towards the wall. Boomers are insufferable for a host of reasons I don't need to bother listing. Gen Z is based as fuck but I'm not a pedo or the lame old guy at the club trying to be young forever so I leave them alone. Thank god for imageboards so I can get the bare minimum of social interaction required to stave off isolation-induced schizophrenia.
Right?!!!! All my friends are on Jow Forums I have millions of friends
Brayden Howard
Lonely is a female word. Men don't care.
Brandon Stewart
I have no friends but by choice I always felt bad, and i started to turn against myself I got treated like shit, values meant nothing to my "friends", no honor, no empathy, only lying and manipulating, no one who has your back I got very depressed, and the more "friends" i had, the worse i felt. Everyone i knew was a leftist parasite, and i could not take it. The girls i had sex with, also were leftist, whores, whatever I could not take it, and just broke contact with everyone I feel better, much better, i have more creativity, and energy But the most important thing is, im not my own enemy anymore Those people will simply drag you down, and destroy your life, its better to be alone, than with bad company
Nathan Sullivan
I want to say that its coming from the alienation of late stage capitalism. The creation and destruction of the nuclear family. Or the way we have to portray or selves on social media to pretend to have a life.
But this is just too sad, alexa play despacito.
Jaxon Morales
oh shit, me too user chan .-.
but for me it wasn't leftists but more FPÖ voters
Samuel Baker
I think I've seen you post before. Are you the guy studying in Vienna who kept sleeping with a bunch or girls from Tinder?
Caleb Perez
I have plenty of friends at my local public toilet. Taken about 50 loads bareback. Condoms are outlawed in my house.
Friends are for children. Adults have family and associates. Start a family and this becomes a non-issue.
Aaron Russell
true. men with goals don't get lonely
Andrew Jenkins
I just stopped being friends with the only friend group I had earlier today. Of course, this is probably the few legitimate times I stop being friends with people, I was never part of the group. Outside of Jow Forums I am officially alone. I'll just have to find new ones but don't even know where to start, I'm so used to people walking towards me instead of the other way around.
You get used to it after awhile. t. level 31 wizard
Brandon Bennett
well, i have frens. lots of them. you guys are my frens, right? RIGHT?
Evan Evans
How can this happen I am the most anti social person and still have two really good friends who would drop everything to help me out if need be
Angel Carter
I have 1 friend. He called me his only real friend too. We get drunk together, smoke weed, lift at the gym, measure eachothers gains. When I am sad I think to myself, at least I have my buddy. I have his back and he has mine. I can easily say I would die for him. What more do I really need?
Isaiah Torres
(((Social media))) (((online dating))) and (((feminism))) mystery solved.
These figures are only going to get worse. Especially after the thot bubble collapses and post wall roasties get ostracized.
William Sanchez
I know a lot of old boomers that are wise and more based than gen z millennials. you gotta get past the generational disconnect- sure they don't know who lady gaga is or watch NGE but they essentially want what everyone wants in life.
your friends are only there to get something out of you, just wait until your struggling and watch them disappear.
Me too bro, it started with single player video games and the illusion of self sustainment.
MSM and education sowing division among the free white countries in order to weaken them.
Socialists are the ones destabilizing the social unit.
Brandon Nelson
It's no real mystery. When I was young kids would go out and play all day with other kids from the neighbourhood, mostly unsupervised. We learned social skills, independence, and how to handle novel situations, and the worst that ever happened was the odd graze or broken bone. The next generation's parents largely ended this practise in a panic about child abduction and their children learned nothing except that outside is dangerous and that their parents are the only people they can ever trust.
Jace Allen
It's important to understand what a true friend is. One of my real good ones found this out when he got divorced. His a natural networked and had all these "friends" but at the end of the day me and another mate were the only ones around to help him pick up the pieces and in the end just made the friendship stronger
friends with buddies from back in high school and a few others from after
you can make friends easily if you try
if not in a relationship I would be banging women my age left and right . there are many milfs on the market and I keep myself in shape jogging/ lifting at 64
this isn't rocket surgery. have a real face to face conversation on a topic of mutual interest without getting into a fucking pissing match
>Didn't hurt any animals. >Jews are animals. Pick one
Joshua Allen
We've been conditioned to only like people with exactly the same interests morals philosophy politics etc, so everyone is afraid to be anything other than the socially acceptable hive mind version of themselves with anyone else. In other words friendship is tiresome and dangerous. If you step outside the social norm lines you get called out blackballed banned and disgraced by your so called friend. In the privacy of my own home I can call you a nigger. If I do it around my friends I not only lose my friends but risk my entire reputation and station in society.
Can confirm. All of my childhood I was either being babysit by granny or locked up in apartment entertaining myself when parents were at work. Parents never allowed me go outside and play with other kids. Even when I went to school I was prohibited to play with classmates after school. Fair enough, most kids in class had their fathers either in prison or they were recently released from prison. Anyways, i was always that kind of kid who never fit. I was always that invisible person in any group who was in a room but everybody ignored me even if I tried to communicate with other kids myself. Most kids in kindergarten were from same neighborhood, same for school. I mastered the art of being on my own to perfection during the years. I need no company, I can live without any communication or interaction with other human for months, I need no validation or attention and I always have something to do on my own. They consider me autistic but they the the ones who will be running and licking smelly asses of community or their bossed to get validation or promotion. When you are free from society you are truly free.
exact same story. I dont need any friends, but i miss intimacy with a close partner. Its not even about sex, but having someone who really cares about you and is able to listen to your (autistic) ideas, thoughts and believes. feels bad
Henry Lopez
im comfortable with not having friends but the emotional pain of no gf is sharp
>Why are the Millenial generation so lonely? It is basically because so FEW MEN GET TO FUCK ANYONE. It is also because SO MANY WOMEN CAN'T HAVE SEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS BECAUSE THEY DO NOT WANT TO BE ABUSIVELY FUCKED that is something ALL MEN want to have these days. Because, you see NO ONE WANTS TO BE A FRIEND OF A MAN WHO DOES NOT GET TO FUCK ANYONE OR A WOMAN WHO HAS NO RELATIONSHIPS. They are considered as LOSERS. No one wants to be a friend of a loser. Of course, as people mostly are BRAINLESS, PRIMITIVE APES, who do not stop to think what are the reasons behind their actions, such who they choose to be friends with, they can't figure this out. That is why they keep making RETARDED QUESTIONS such as the one that why are millennials so lonely. It's plain as fuck. Read the green text below if you are stupid:
>man does not get to fuck anyone >no one wants to be a friend with a male loser who does not get to fuck >man can not have friends
>woman can't have relationships because she does not want to be facially abused or anally fucked >no one wants to be a friend of a female loser who does not have relationships >woman can't have friends
Also I want to kill all NORMIE BEASTS JUDGING PEOPLE WITH NO FRIENDS AS BAD PEOPLE. They LOVE TO DO THAT you know, because judging and condemning is such AN EASY method of trying to eliminate your rivals on any context.
Just came to explain this. Not interested in having any conversation.
Anthony Turner
Cope
John Rodriguez
It ok fren
My friend group left me 3 years ago. All they do is sit around and smoke week and drink and fuck random whores now. It sucked for awhile but nothing of value was lost in hindsight
Isaac Parker
Gen Z here. If you're K-selective and can handle a decent conversation I'd still be down to meet for drinks and cards. Try joining the knights of Columbus if you're Catholic or some other organizations.
Isaac Bennett
>such AS who they choose to be friends with, ...
And it's going to get WORSE among zoomers, when they get older and have been long enough without sex or relationships. It's going to be at least 50% of people withering alone with no friends in that generation.
Jayden Wood
are you me
Jeremiah Martin
we are the many
Nolan Cruz
You still have some things to master to become an ultimate loners. The thing is, almost nobody cares, even tho they call themselves your friends/partners/buddies they never really truly care about you. Sure thing, they can be nice people and they may help you on occasion but your best friend is you. And the emotional pain caused by nogf is the same shit society impose on you. All they talk is HEY LOOK, you can't manage without us! You can't be good on your own, we evaluate you by how socially active you are, how many friends are on your thotbook, etc. You can be great musician or scientist or carpenter whatever but you always will be judged by them this way - WELP, what he makes is perfect, but he is kinda WEIRD, so I better not use his services but ask that dude who does things worse but at least he jokes funny and always has a party.
Kevin Sanders
>but the emotional pain of no gf is sharp Why? Sex isn't that big a deal. It only seems like it is. Find a true passion, cultivate some skill, and branch off into others.
>The poll of 1,254 that's a pitifully small sample pool
Angel Baker
Double everything this user said
Nathan Allen
>'Hey, annon, wanna hang out and do something that costs a shit ton of money?' Having friends is expensive. I can't afford any in this economy.
Grayson Anderson
>this economy >best economy in the history of this country and world
Kayden Hall
we are social animals loneliness slowly weakens and kills us
Dylan Perry
better than fucking a dog eat piss bugs shit, leaf no meat for you
Connor Wright
I can only talk about myself, and i know that i am capable of truly loving, thus carry about someone. But why is it so difficult to find someone, who is alike. Someone who is honest, sincer and real, instead of aloof and faking friendships?
personally i am on my way to getting used to loneliness, but i am not capable of understanding why people are so empty.
Mason Nelson
>what do i win? livelong depression, unfortunately
Gabriel Morgan
This. There's a reason the worst punishment prison can throw at you is just being alone.
Austin Cruz
Yeah, if you are already rich. The economy threw 80% of the people overboard 40 years ago and is chipping away at the remaining 20%.
William Bennett
We have a choice not to be animals and we aren't but they continue to label us losers.
Julian White
Yet statistically significant enough to make assessments like these
Christopher Davis
Me too. GenX and have always been socially isolated save for my late teens and early twenties. Its not getting any easier.
Ayden Ramirez
1 in 5, that means 80% aren't like that.
Christopher Anderson
Thanks internet and social media. For bringing us together... It empowers lazy and antisocial people to not reach out and for real interpersonal bonds. Also why so many people aren't fucking as well.
Liam Rogers
There are gems in this cesspool of society. If you try hard enough you might find them (mostly on internet tho). The thing is, most folks are so used to use somebody to get what they want and move on. They always need more and more (money, attention, etc). Sad reality.
Isaac Rogers
I quit hanging out with any friends I had because I quit partying. I have not made new friends that I would actually want to spend time with. I have always been a loner though with one close friend all through school until I started partying. I'm not lonely.
John Phillips
Boomer here. You mean to tell me you kids these days don't know how to make friends? I tell ya, when I was your age I'd just walk up to people, look 'em in the eye and shake their hand, friend guaranteed, worked every time.
Also quit spending so much time on those video games and the computer and get outside a little. Wouldn't hurt ya!
Benjamin Foster
This. The more friends you already have, the easier it gets step into a new group and find new friends. But if you have 0-3 friends, you're pretty much fucked.
The only solutions to someone with no friends is finding a job where you're required to socialize, hitting the gym and hopefully make friends there, finding a girlfriend and her introducing you to her friends, etc.
I absolutely agree that today's society is insanely impersonal.
Justin Bell
friends don't even exist if you get sick or don't offer immediate benefits they will dump you in one second
Kevin Foster
Gf is my only friend I suppose. She's Jow Forums tier and I refuse to drag her along anywhere because she wants to leave immediately after arriving. Oh well. Must suck seeing everyone as "competitors".
As boomer as this post is, it’s surprisingly right Unless you’re hideous, showing up to the first day of class like 2 mins late so everyone is seated, then finding the best looking same gender person in class and sitting near them is a good way to make a friend. Seriously, has anyone ever tried hard to be your friend when you were nervous? Chances are you didn’t push them away.
