It's said that the more arguments you win, the less friends you'll have.
In fact, a 2004 study found that 85% of adults feel happier, less stressed and more energized after spending time with friends and yet 62% of those people said they spent less time with friends than ever before.
The world is watching, and with a new year on the way, will we reverse course, or continue down the path of emulating our less vibrant friends around the world?
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If one of your less motivated friends has been inactive for over 30 days, a shaming couch icon appears to the left of their name and a megaphone button to the right.
Queen Elizabeth (Olivia Colman) makes American friends less readily.
Our research consistently shows that Heavy Social Media Users are less involved in the offline world than their friends who spend less time on Facebook or other social sites.
On Yelp, while you can connect with real friends, in general people look for the five star ratings of businesses nearby, less so which businesses their friends rated best.
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Spend more time with friends and less time with our devices.
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His friends worry less about his Democratic opponents than about complacency and high expectations of the sort that nearly cost another successful moderate, Christine Whitman, her governorship in New Jersey.
Over the years, various aristocrats, cousins and horse-racing grandees have been more or less plausibly identified as her friends.
No, that doesn't mean that you have to become the laughingstock of your friends for your less-than-gripping entertainment skills.
But what the police class as a low-risk case is no less painful for family and friends left behind.
Palin's friends should be less immediately worried about what the Obama campaign will do to her than what the McCain campaign will do.
I'd rather get around on my bike than in a BMW. But to my lasting embarrassment, in my junior year, I traded my friends for a less eccentric crowd.
Yet as boys reach manhood, they begin to lose their closest male friends and become less willing to be emotionally vulnerable because they associate these qualities with being female or gay.
What you might actually do with this water-consumption info is sort of a mystery, but I suppose sharing it with friends is no less ridiculous than pontificating over your fantasy football results.
Last year, I found, paid for and mailed gifts for my parents, my four brothers and their five kids, my two secretaries and my three best friends all in less than two hours.
But America and its friends are becoming much less vulnerable to oil shocks.
It joins other account-recovery features such as the ubiquitous "forgot my password" and security questions, as well as less conventional methods, like identifying friends' faces in pictures or recovering passwords via text message.
Though based on Western organisations he had seen on television, Friends of Nature was less a lobbying outfit than a club, whose members would go tree-planting, camping and chorus-singing to spread the green message through the land.
But farmers might find Congress less kind when the pressure to win friends is over.
Without siblings, and usually with both parents working, these youngsters are influenced less by their family than by their friends and the media.
Likewise, almost two-thirds would be happier making less money and living close to their friends, rather than more money in a city of strangers.
If a CEO can hear staffers' every cough, let alone their birthday calls from friends, all parties are less inclined to engage in unprofessional behavior.
If I worked less, I had more time with friends.
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For example, even though the Clinton Administration is substantially reducing the number of troops in Europe, it has not suggested that the United States is any less committed to the security of its friends and allies there than before.
But now even Mr Djukanovic's enemies in Podgorica, the capital, who say that their youthful president is much less of a reformer than his western friends assert, admit that his popularity is rising again, after a dip induced by the first two weeks of bombing Montenegro's military and naval installations.
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