“[[Matthew Jackson]] explained this concept well in The Human Network, when discussing **why most people feel less popular than their friends**: “Have you ever had the impression that other people have many more friends than you? If you have, you are not alone. **Our friends have more friends on average than a typical person in the population**. This is the friendship paradox… “The friendship paradox is easy to understand. **The most popular people appear on many other people’s friendship lists, while the people with very few friends appear on relatively few people’s lists**. The people with many friends are overrepresented on people’s list of friends relative to their share in the population, while the people with few friends are underrepresented.” --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[making-friends]], [[friendship-paradox]], [[loneliness]] **Source** -- [[20250201125729 - B - Just Keep Buying]]