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Fortune
Trey Williams

It's not just you. Our friendships really are worse now—and it's getting harder to make new ones

Photo illustration of three windows on the side of a building, each revealing a lonely isolated person standing or working from home. (Credit: Photo illustration by Fortune; Original photos by Getty Images (4))

Sarah has her eye on two women in her Italian class, which she's taking in order to brush up on her Italian, but also just to get out there more—new year; new Sarah.

The women, from what she can tell, are like her: in their 20s, one grew up in a town near San Jose where Sarah is from, they all work in tech, and well, "They just look, I don't know, like people I could be friends with," she says.

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