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Speed friending: one cafe’s answer to America’s growing friendship recession

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY’S EDITORIAL TEAM Something has shifted over the past three decades in how Americans relate to each other. In 1990, about three percent of Americans said they had no close friends. Today, that number sits somewhere between 12 and 20 percent, depending on who you ask. Jaimie Krems, an associate professor of psychology at UCLA and co-founder of the UCLA Center for Friendship Research, has a name for it: a friendship recession.…
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The Optimist Daily broke the news in on Tuesday, March 31, 2026.
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