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# Friendship Recessions
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/friendship-recessions/
- Published: 2024-07-10T10:09:58.000Z
- Updated: 2024-07-10T10:09:58.000Z
- Author: Protein
- Tags: Seeds, Friendship, #Snapchat

[Grace Gordon](https://www.instagram.com/gracegordonsf/?ref=protein.xyz) continues to deliver the goods. This time on the topic of [Friendships](https://greatpoint.substack.com/p/the-kids-are-finding-their-way-weird) recessions ([amongst other things](https://x.com/seanxthielen/status/1810106435298050368?ref=protein.xyz)):

> "I’m tempted to couch some of this in a gender binary (its proven that [women lean more/expect more of their friendships](https://www.americansurveycenter.org/research/the-state-of-american-friendship-change-challenges-and-loss/?ref=protein.xyz)) but i also kind of think thats’ not true; men want deeper friendships too, and space to talk about more than sport or, for the dimes sq adjacent amongst us, inseams / pant widths (there was this piece about the [male Friendship recession](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/28/well/family/male-friendship-loneliness.html?unlocked%5Farticle%5Fcode=1.500.cugV.5UHbb5bIylwo&smid=url-share&ref=protein.xyz) a while back). To put it succinctly, shit just seems kind of… bad?"

*Friendships* are something we [looked into](https://www.protein.xyz/the-friendship-report/) a while back with Snapchat and continue to track as a cultural barometer for the state of our relationships.