How many friends do we have?
That question is getting complicated. It depends on who's asking, and what exactly they mean by friends. Strictly speaking, we have lots of friends. Never has the world been more connected than it is now. We are, constantly, connected to a brain-bursting amount of people - work contacts, distant family members, old high school friends, even people we don't like that much. By the popular definition, most of us have hundreds of friends.
And yet, the current generation is being called history's loneliest. Friendship's biggest prize, acceptance, remains the Holy Grail - desperately sought and rarely found. When you strip away our online followers, our smart phone contacts, our social networks, what are we left with? How do we just belong?
In this episode, we picked one city, and found three stories there of how people found acceptance. In some surprising ways.
Belong: The Extras
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