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US friendship is in freefall – shredding bonds and cutting lives short
More Americans have fewer friends, studies show — silently harming our health and creating a lower-trust society, more prone to crime and unrest.
People with stronger social interactions live longer than those without, according to a study published last week in the UK’s Nature Medicine journal. The media is normalizing this sort of thing: See last month’s New York Times feature on a married woman who had fallen in love with her ChatGPT. The replacement of actual friendships, first with online-only “friends” we never see and eventually with bots who tell us what we want to hear, threatens an utter transformation of human society — and we shouldn’t keep heading in this direction without thinking through the consequences.
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