Hi, and welcome back to the Carol Marco at Show.

It was a story in my favorite newspaper,

The New York Post yesterday, on how Generation Z

has no friends.

It was based on a study out of Australia

done by Bumble, the dating site.

Not entirely sure why Bumble is looking into this,

but maybe the future really is, as my guest, Mary

Catherine Ham set a few days ago, a Tinder for friends.

It's not just Australia, and it's clearly not just Gen Z.

There have been so many studies done

on how people just can't seem to connect,

and a lot of it is correctly blamed on social media.

Social media turns friendship and dating,

but that's a whole other episode,

into something similar to a video game.

You're, you know, swiping, you're leaving comments,

you're clicking like, you're commenting sleigh,

on each other's content, but never really having a friendship.

But I'd say that the problem is wider

than just that video game sensation,

which I do think is a problem.

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