Do Men Suck At Friendship?

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Post by hbe_ » Wed, Apr 23, 2014, 4:26 AM UTC

Do Men Suck At Friendship?
mensjournal.com

Re: Do Men Suck At Friendship?

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Post by vineetdhanawat » Wed, Apr 23, 2014, 4:40 AM UTC

Automated tweet for this article has a custom mjm.ag domain instead of bit.ly for first time. Not sure why that happened https://twitter.com/hnycombinator/status/458827145398484992

Re: Do Men Suck At Friendship?

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Post by leccine » Wed, Apr 23, 2014, 4:41 AM UTC

Semi sexist, greatly generalizing title. The sample used for the study covers only fraction of the entire data set so making this conclusion is very bold.

Re: Do Men Suck At Friendship?

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Post by vishaldpatel » Wed, Apr 23, 2014, 4:43 AM UTC

tl;dr; answer: no. No they don't.

Re: Do Men Suck At Friendship?

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Post by dang » Wed, Apr 23, 2014, 4:45 AM UTC

Can anyone suggest a better title? This one is pretty linkbaity.

Re: Do Men Suck At Friendship?

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Post by sosuke » Wed, Apr 23, 2014, 4:45 AM UTC

I feel this, my chat group I've had with friends from work for the last year just went dead. We bonded strongly at work, in work, and when work didn't connect us we disconnected. This year I made more effort than ever to make friends, but it just hasn't stuck yet. I'm not giving up though.

Re: Do Men Suck At Friendship?

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Post by wyager » Wed, Apr 23, 2014, 4:46 AM UTC

This article implies that living a long life should be the ultimate driving goal behind our actions.

What's wrong with "convenience", "mentor", or "activity" friendships? They sound perfectly logical and reasonable to me. Just because these kind of friendships might not contribute as much to longevity doesn't make them wrong.

Re: Do Men Suck At Friendship?

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Post by sosuke » Wed, Apr 23, 2014, 4:48 AM UTC

wyager wrote: post #7

This article implies that living a long life should be the ultimate driving goal behind our actions. What's wrong with "convenience", "mentor", or "activity" friendships? They sound perfectly logical and reasonable to me. Just because these kind of friendships might not contribute as much to longevity doesn't make them wrong.

I didn't take away from my reading, that those friendships weren't valuable, but that there could be another stronger connection category that could be made which would be valuable as well.

Re: Do Men Suck At Friendship?

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Post by nandhp » Wed, Apr 23, 2014, 4:49 AM UTC

vineetdhanawat wrote: post #2

Automated tweet for this article has a custom mjm.ag domain instead of bit.ly for first time. Not sure why that happened https://twitter.com/hnycombinator/status/458827145398484992

Looks like a (new?) bit.ly feature (pasting the long url into bit.ly gives the same domain); I'm guessing this is related to the Branded Short Domain feature of Bitly Brand Tools?

https://bitly.com/a/features

Re: Do Men Suck At Friendship?

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Post by evan_ » Wed, Apr 23, 2014, 4:52 AM UTC

vineetdhanawat wrote: post #2

Automated tweet for this article has a custom mjm.ag domain instead of bit.ly for first time. Not sure why that happened https://twitter.com/hnycombinator/status/458827145398484992

That's part of bitly's premium offering.

nytimes.com shortens to http://nyti.ms/1gQdV1r, Amazon shortens to http://amzn.to/1mCftnd, and anything .gov shortens to 1.usa.gov: http://1.usa.gov/1iejWVe

The shortened part is totally interchangable, ie http://bit.ly/1gQdV1r still goes to the NY Times site.