Is your circle of friends getting narrower?
Many people find that friends are harder to come by once they are tossed out of college onto the cold, hard streets of the real world.
A study by Oxford university looked at the phone call records of 3.2m mobile phone users across Europe, including data on the users genders and ages as well as how many calls they made and the length of each call.
The research found that those studied had the most social connections at the age of 25, with it all going downhill after that.
The study also revealed that, under the age of 40, men call more people than women do – but that women spend more time talking to the people they do call.
The drop-off in friendship after the age of 25 likely comes from big life events like marrying and having children restricting friendships to a more exclusive sphere.
So if you’re 27 and you feel like you’ve been losing mates, well, the chances are you’re probably right.
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