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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m on the parent Facebook group for my kid’s college.  Almost every week, someone posts about how their child is feeling isolated, hasn’t made close friends, is bored and lonely etc.  My child complains of similar adjustment issues, even though they never had trouble finding friends and activities in the past.  
Is it something about their particular college?  Is it that their generation doesn’t know how to make friends?  Is it that the parents on the Facebook group are self-selected to be more anxious about their kid’s adjustment and 90% of the students are doing just great? 
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It's a combination of all. I do see the same at my kid's College FB group. Is he attending JMU as well? lol.

For my son, his expectations where really high in regards to friendships, parties, culture and so on.

[i][b]He is outgoing, athletic, tall and handsome [/b][/i]and has met a bunch of girls but has not made close connections with the guys. In part because most of the "cool guys" have joined Fraternities and he didn't want to so now he feels lonely.

I think what social media does now is that they see people doing things, "having fun", and feel left out and lonely. At that age I was outgoing but still didn't make friends easily but I also didn't know what others were doing or what I was "missing out".

I do hear that it takes time to find yourself, but isn't that what College is for?

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LOL... I call this BS.  No guy with that caliber is going to be lonely.[/quote]

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