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Many people at one point or another have lost touch with once-close friends, a phenomenon only exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, 2021 data from the Survey Center on American Life indicates that the share of adults with no close friends at all has quadrupled since 1990.
Every year, billions of unwanted phone calls are placed to unsuspecting Americans. In 2024, the Federal Trade Commission reported that consumers lost more than $12.5 billion collectively to fraud, a 25% jump from the prior year.