Hi, and welcome back to the Carol Markowitz Show on IHeartRadio. I got a bunch of notes about that

last monologue on friendship. If you didn't hear it, I talked about the steep decline in a number of

close friends that people have. So in the 1990s, only about 2 to 3% of people said they had no

close friends. Now that number is 10% for college graduates in 3% of people said they had no close friends.

Now that number is 10% for college graduates and 24% for high school graduates.

Again, that's no close friends at all.

So one person wrote in, I have Facebook friends and people I text with in my hometown,

but I moved to a new town six years

ago and haven't made any close friends here. Another person wrote, I moved last year and haven't been

able to make friends in my new city. My wife hasn't either. Our son is two and we have acquaintances

through his daycare but no actual potential friends.

And the last note I'll highlight is, quote,

I have close friends who are always there for me, but they live far away.

I don't have the kind of friends that I see people have on social media where they go out to dinner or the movies.

I'm not sure where I would be on that survey because I do have friends I can count on but rarely see."

A lot of the people who wrote in had recently moved and I don't know if that's because

I mentioned that a lot of people have moved and I've obviously talked about my own move

and the fact that there's been this national realignment or people have moved in the last few

years or maybe that's just a coincidence. It's hard when you move that there's been this national realignment or people have moved in the last few years,

or maybe that's just a coincidence. It's hard when you move to start a new friend group,

to make new friends. It's hard to get to know people. People are strange when you're a stranger.

I say that a lot about being in a new place and meeting new people. Only one person who wrote in indicated they have a

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