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Social isolation can inhibit your wellbeing and success. ‘You need to make time for people,’ says expert

Cnbc · 🇺🇸 public United States · · 734 words · By Gili Malinsky
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What to know about Social isolation can inhibit your wellbeing and success. ‘You need to make time for people,’ says expert

Scroll through TiKTok and you might run into the "happiest at home" or "cozy night" hashtags.

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What happened

Scroll through TiKTok and you might run into the "happiest at home" or "cozy night" hashtags.

Why it matters

Both feature people alone on their couch or in bed, voiceovers saying "I feel great about what I did last night, which was nothing" or "where are you going after work?

Common ground

I'm going to lay-down town, horizontal heaven, bedtime boulevard." There's nothing wrong with staying in alone.

Perspective signals

No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

open_in_new Read the original article: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/07/people-too-tired-to-reach-out-to-friends.html

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 9 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “nearly 31% say they're too busy or tired to reach out, according to a recent survey by the American Friendship Project, or AFP”
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The KU News source explicitly confirms that the American Friendship Project chart lists 'Too busy or tired to reach out' at 30.8 percent, which aligns with the claim of 'nearly 31%'.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Friendship dolls, Japanese friendship dolls (友情人形, yūjō ningyō), or Japanese ambassador dolls and the American blue-eyed dolls (青い目の人形, aoi me no ningyō), were dolls sent between Japan and the United…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" (German: Jeder nach seinen Fähigkeiten, jedem nach seinen Bedürfnissen) is a slogan popularised by Karl Marx in his 1875 Critique o…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic is an animated television series based on Hasbro's My Little Pony franchise and marking the start of its fourth incarnation. The series follows a studious pony name…
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Claim 2: “Department chair and professor of communication at the University of Kansas and co-founder of AFP Jeffrey Hall”
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The search results for 'Jeffrey' are generic disambiguation pages and do not confirm Jeffrey Hall's specific role as a co-founder of AFP or his position at the University of Kansas.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Dwight David Eisenhower (born David Dwight Eisenhower; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969), also known as Ike, was the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. In his previous military ca…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Protests, including rallies, demonstrations, campaigns, and vigils, relating to the Gaza war have occurred nationwide across the United States since the conflict's start on October 7, 2023, occurring …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a working list of notable faculty, alumni and scholars of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, United States.
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Claim 3: “Nineteen percent also say their job gets in the way”
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The provided evidence for this claim discusses general job stress and hobbies but does not contain the specific 19% statistic from the AFP survey.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Charles Milles Manson (né Maddox; November 12, 1934 – November 19, 2017) was an American criminal, cult leader, and musician who was the founder of the Manson Family. He gained notoriety for ordering …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following is a non-exhaustive list of people who have declined a British honour, such as a knighthood or other grade of honour. In most cases, the offer of an honour was rejected privately. Nowada…
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Claim 4: “Erika Rasure, chief financial wellness advisor at Beyond Finance”
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Three independent web results (Beyond Finance author page, a professional profile, and a Globe Newswire press release) confirm Erika Rasure is the Chief Financial Wellness Advisor at Beyond Finance.
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web search NEUTRAL — Chief Financial Wellness Advisor, Beyond Finance. PhD, CFT™, Certified Deep Transformational Coach, RYT. Creator of the Financial Wellness RESET™ Framework. Dr. Erika Rasure is a financial therapist, …
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web search NEUTRAL — As Chief Financial Wellness Advisor at Beyond Finance, she leads five weekly financial wellness sessions with clients navigating debt and is the creator of Beyond Finance’s Financial Wellness RESET™ F…
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web search NEUTRAL — 31, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Beyond Finance, one of the nation’s leading debt consolidation and solution companies, appointed Dr. Erika Rasure, CTC, one of its client financial therapists, as Chief Fi…
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Claim 5: “Overall consumer prices went up 25% between January 2020 and November 2025, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.”
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web search NEUTRAL — CPI Inflation Calculator. BLS could not collect October 2025 reference period survey data for CPI due to a lapse in appropriations. Calculations using October 2025 data will not be calculated.
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web search NEUTRAL — The result of the Bureau of Labor Statistics' monthly "basket of goods" measurement is a single number known as the Consumer Price Index (CPI). This the weighted average of many changes in the price o…
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web search NEUTRAL — Contact the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Phone number. 1-202-691-5200.
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Claim 6: “a recent Harris Poll survey of 603 Gen Zers. While 60% say they prefer hanging out with their friends in person and 71% feel they're missing the in-person experiences older generations had at their age, 68% also say going out isn't worth what it does to their wallet.”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of unrelated results about Kamala Harris, L3Harris, and Harris Teeter; no Harris Poll data regarding Gen Z was found.
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web search NEUTRAL — 2Attorney general of California (2011–2017) 3U.S. senator (2017–2021) Toggle U.S. senator (2017–2021) subsection. 3.1Election. 3.2Tenure and political positions.
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web search NEUTRAL — Visit our newsroom and learn how we’re delivering trusted national security solutions at the pace of a technology disruptor. L3Harris Technologies has been selected by the government of Peru to provid…
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web search NEUTRAL — Shop fresh groceries at low prices at a Harris Teeter near you. Fill prescriptions, order online and save with digital coupons on grocery pick-up & delivery.
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Claim 7: “Another barrier AFP identified is finances: 38% of people say they don't have enough money to spend time with friends.”
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The KU News source explicitly states that the top answer for reasons for not spending time with friends was 'not having enough money, at 38.2 percent'.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Agence France-Presse (AFP; French pronunciation: [aʒɑ̃s fʁɑ̃s pʁɛs]) is a French international news agency headquartered in Paris, France. Its origins date back to 1835, when it was founded as Havas, …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Americans for Prosperity (AFP), founded in 2004, is a libertarian conservative political advocacy group in the United States affiliated with brothers Charles Koch and the late David Koch. As the Koch …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) (Filipino: Sandatahang Lakas ng Pilipinas) are the military forces of the Philippines. It consists of three main service branches; the Army, the Air Force, an…
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Claim 8: “The average price of half a gallon of ice cream in the U.S. is just under $6, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis”
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No evidence was found after searching for this specific claim regarding ice cream prices from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
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Claim 9: “the American Friendship Project, or AFP, which has been studying the state of friendship in America since 2022”
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Multiple web search results refer to the American Friendship Project (AFP) as an ongoing, multi-year survey studying friendships in America.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Captain America: Brave New World is a 2025 American superhero film based on Marvel Comics featuring the character Sam Wilson / Captain America. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disne…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The German-American Friendship Garden on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. is a symbol of the positive and cooperative relations between the United States of America and the Federal Republic of Ge…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Philippine Republic Day (Tagalog: Araw ng Republikang Pilipino), also known as Philippine–American Friendship Day, is a commemoration in the Philippines held annually on July 4. It was formerly an off…
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