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No, not really. Personally, think that friendships are very shallow these days. Only a handful of people or even less can be truly called friends that would be there for you when you genuinely them.
I’ve seen countless of times where people with several friends (or a lot) are left in the dust after two people in the friendships have a conflict or they are friends “only in the fun times”. This was also before the internet took off.
My mom somehow has this friend, I'd say like a BFF or something (same gender for context) while she was in school or something, and they seem so close. As a kid, I've been to their house a few times and I'd didn't have a phone (smartphones werent even a thing) so I was just bored and looked around at stuff while the adults talked.
My mom borrowed money from this friend so she'd have enough money to buy a house. That debt has now been repaid.
Like idk... that seems so rare... ironically my mom tells me "blood relationships is important" or some bullshit, but then I point this out and she just be like... speechless, cuz our actual blood relatives (like aunts/uncles) didn't even wanna help.
But yea "these days", maybe... maybe its just society gotten more obsessed with money and we end up with a low-trust society.