It gets harder to make friends as you get older

Published on

7 October 2026

You get people that gravitate towards making a lot of friends and then you get people who just don’t want to.

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Apparently it’s more difficult to make friends as we get older. In one survey half of all adults said that making new friends becomes harder with age, with time constraints and a lack of social opportunities among the reasons. In the same survey close to 90% said they were open to making new friends, not necessarily that they didn’t want new friends.

Phil de Lange

Phil de Lange is the producer of the Ryan O'Connor Breakfast show and has been with Smile 90.4FM since it's inception in 2013. Through his work on the breakfast show he has won two national radio awards. He has been in broadcasting for 15 years and has honed his talent at 6 different radio stations. Outside of radio he is also a podcast producer and award winning stand-up comedian.