In today’s article Geoffrey Greif writes about men’s and women’s understandings of friendship. His research has allowed several interesting conceptions to surface:

Many people do not think they have enough friends (about 38%)

92% of people felt same sex friendships were important

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That women put more value into being understood than men did.

All of this led me to probe my own ideas of friend ship and who I spend my time with.

My own conclusions are interesting. I sometimes feel like I make more time for my male friends than my female friends. I was thinking this was a bit unfair and that I was focusing more on male friends. After making this chart though I realized I hardly work with any men and live and work almost completely with women. If I am going to run into male friends it takes extra effort and may explain my feeling of always reaching out to my male friends where as I often end up spontaneously hanging out with my female friends.

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*MFriends= Male Friends, FFriends=Female Friends, MWork= Males I work with, FWork=Females I work with, MWeek= Males I hung out with in the past week, FWeek=Females I hung out with in the last week.

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cost of materials: $0

Amount of time: 30min.

Amount of fun: 5