According to UPI Americans are more lonely than ever. No kidding. We sit in front of computers all day, all our kids have ADHD and we have no morals. Who on earth would possibly want to be friends with us? The article says the study says that we have only two close friends. Who needs more than that? Assuming one of them is your spouse or lover then you have really have enough time to have one other "super" friend. Personally I go through stages of making new friends then "dumping" the ones that aren't working out. That's just me though--and possibly why I only have two close friends.