Give reasons, for us being reluctant to make friends with some strangers,
but being comfortable with some, even after meeting them for the first
time.
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It’s said that making friends gets harder the older you get.
People settle into their existing friendships, forged during childhood or at university, through work or common friends.
With other life priorities taking over as we age, we also find less time to hang out with friends and many people tighten their social circles to include only those they’re very close with (as opposed to casual party friends or acquaintances).
However, new research suggests that young people are the ones struggling to build new platonic relationships.
According to a recent survey commissioned by Whistle Punks through YouGov, which included 2,000 participants aged 18 to 55, the age group that felt least confident in chatting to strangers was those aged 18 to 24 (65%).
Similarly, it was found that 59% of millennials spend more time chatting to friends on social media than they do seeing them in the flesh.
Are young people afraid to make friends? Or have we simply lost the social skills required to do so?
Author and expert on all things friendship, Kate Leaver, who also writes a weekly friendship column for Metro.co.uk, tells us the issue is that young people have grown up in a society that encouraged them not to talk to strangers – and as a result, not to make new friends.
‘Young people are not confident speaking to strangers because they’re scared of rejection, but also because we’ve really been socially conditioned not to,’ said Kate.
‘Baby boomers and previous generations had a much stronger sense of community and belonging in public, shared spaces. We don’t have as much access to that because the way we structure our modern lives means we are less in touch with our communities and the people around us.
‘Shared public spaces like parks and libraries and village halls – places where people might comfortably approach a stranger – are being shut down. We’re more likely to live far away from our families and traditional support networks.
‘We haven’t normalised the act of going up to someone we don’t know in the hope of striking up a friendship. We don’t even make eye contact on the tube. We are living more segregated lives, which of course partially explains our loneliness epidemic.
‘We might be happy, as young people, to speak to strangers online and on social media, where we feel more fearless and confident, but in person it’s daunting and unfamiliar. It’s just not something we’ve been taught to do, especially as we use our phone and computer screens as a bit of a security shield, protecting us from explicit rejection.’
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