If you're over 25, expect fewer friends

07 April 2016 - 02:49
By ©The Daily Telegraph

At what age do we hit "peak friendship"? Scientists believe they might have found the answer. Our social networks shrink from the age of 25, the data reveals, with the pool of friends a person has getting smaller and smaller as the years go by.The phone records of more than 3.2 million mobile users in Europe were analysed for the study,They found social circles tend to decrease until the age of 45 when the number stabilises for about a decade.

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