What can humans do to help maintain their friendships?

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What can humans do to help maintain their friendships?

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On social media, private messaging versus mass announcements help maintain friendships.

Close friends engage in more maintenance behaviors.

Socially interacting helps to maintain friendships.

Best friendships that were maintained throughout the transition from high school to college were not maintained due to proximity. Instead, people who maintained these friendships reported more communication-based maintenance such as interactions, self-disclosure, positivity, and supportiveness.

Close friends engage in more task sharing.

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Learn to maintain friendships

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