Monday, June 26, 2006

Americans' circle of close friends shrinking

Americans' circle of close friends shrinking - Yahoo! News (Reuters)

Strange and not good.

Something I don't understand, though - if people have fewer friends, then what's going on with so many people in so many conversations on their cellphones? Who are they talking to so much?

People do seem to more communicative than ever and with more modes of communication than ever. And they are communicating with...? (Not to mention about what?)

I'm missing something here, perhaps?

(I do know my children will "cellphone" me about matters that they either wouldn't have mentioned, or would have waited until they next saw me, etc. in The Days Before Cellphones. FWIW, I do not have a cellphone, believe it or not.)

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