Gen Zers have exposed that having friends is no longer a rite of passage.
Young people have revealed the “embarrassing” secret many of them have been hiding - and it is more common than you think.Friendship in 2023 has become online currency, with people constantly posting about their big friendship groups online.
There’s also a sad trend of young women taking to Facebook to share their lack of friends – while refusing to reveal their identity. “I’m always the nobody in the group and always get forgotten. Now I’m in no group, which breaks my heart,” she revealed.Young women are struggling with being lonely. Picture: TikTok/user3747378817
Dober said the issue often breeds upon itself because people can also “internalise” feelings of loneliness as a “deficit” in their own capacities to make and maintain friendships. Creator Kelsey Soles amassed millions of likes on TikTok by speaking about the taboo issue of loneliness.
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