Understanding the Male Friendship Deficit

Marcus Barber
7 min readMar 20, 2023

It’s the difference between social networks and proximity networks

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Men are lonely. Many are alone and lonely, many are not alone and lonely. And the ultimate reason comes down to how we (men) have structured our society. Turns out that the model we’ve created to benefit ourselves (and by ‘ourselves’ I mean ‘men’) has a price to pay.

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Marcus Barber

Facilitator & Futurist developing more effective thinking for Organisations.: Engaging with the world of possibility Refollows? http://lufg.com.au/event