A Bunch Of Charts About American Friendship

Can we learn anything?

I’ll start you off with two main resources:

• The American Survey Center’s “State of American Friendship” from 2021
• A long read I did about a month ago on modern friendship

The below charts are from the first link. After the charts, I’ll bullet point a couple of interesting callouts. Let’s roll.

Charts On Friendship

Some Callouts To Consider

• “The COVID-19 pandemic is the most obvious culprit in the national friendship decline, but broader structural forces may be playing a more…