“I have one uni friend I’m close with and a couple of old friends from my teens, but I’d say my social life is a third of what it once was”
Is the drop in our number of friendships a sign of social maturity or proof that the world is lonelier than ever, asks Fiona Cowood
In between video calls with IT and new colleagues, she tried to get to know her fellow cohort of first-jobbers via virtual meet-ups and Teams chats. But it was hard going. The report pinpoints our ‘social self’ as the thing which has seen the sharpest decline, concluding that it’s our friendships, connections and relationships that have really suffered – and that younger people have lost the most.
Many experts and commentators predicted that a so-called ‘friendship recession’ would inevitably follow the pandemic, and research by LifeSearch finds the average 18-34-year-old has lost 4.5 friendships since Covid, rising to 5.4 in London. But for Paris Collingbourne, 27, this ‘friendship pruning’ has only been a positive.“I used to be busy all the time. I had plans most evenings, whether that was a gym class or catching up with a friend and would spend my weekends going on nights out.
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