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Put the fish down. (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My wife’s circle of friends is much larger than my own, so this wouldn’t surprise me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I saw a study from Finland that said that most men only have a few friends, a lot don't have any. I guess I'm typical in the sense that I have a few friends and we don't see that often. So not many photos of me taken by friends.

Of course there's cultural aspect here, we Finns are what we are and also maybe other languages or cultures use the word more casually etc. But from what I've seen and read online, I don't think having zero to only few friends is a Finnish peculiarity but rather pretty common at least in the West or maybe just Northern Europe and similar-ish cultures.