The No-Weakness Protocol

> SCANNING INSTALLED PROGRAMS...
> FOUND: THE NO-WEAKNESS PROTOCOL
> STATUS: RUNNING — LOAD: HIGH
> RULE DECODED:
“If they see me struggle, they'll see me differently — handle it alone.” The data on where this protocol ends: only 20% of men got emotional support from a friend in the past week, and the ones who need it most are the least likely to ask.
> ACTIVE THREADS: 3
[PID 001]“If I tell them I'm struggling, it changes how they see me”LOAD: HIGH
[PID 002]“Man up and deal with it alone”LOAD: HIGH
[PID 003]“They'd lose respect for me if they knew”LOAD: HIGH
> RESEARCH REFS FOUND:
[INFO]The Friendship Recession: What the Data Actually Show About Shrinking Social Circles
> EXPLOIT VECTORS IDENTIFIED:
[WARN]Propinquity Loss
Propinquity loss is the quiet disappearance of the repeated, unplanned contact that friendship formation runs on. Festinger, Schachter and Back's 1950 Westgate housing study showed…
[WARN]Friendship Time Starvation
Friendship time starvation is the gap between the hours friendship requires and the hours adult life supplies. Hall (2018) put numbers on the requirement: roughly 50 shared leisure…
[WARN]The Liking Gap
The liking gap is the systematic underestimate of how much other people like us after we talk to them. Boothby, Cooney, Sandstrom and Clark (2018) found it in lab conversations bet…
> WIPE PROTOCOL AVAILABLE 
STATUS: READY_TO_INSTALL
“If I tell them I'm struggling, it changes how they see me”
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