I love throwing dinner parties. It’s become a passion project to weave together a room of loose threads and watch them tighten into a connected web—one that holds the space, catalyzes connection, and ...

Why do some teenage and college student group members become mean? What impacts does the toxicity have on other group members? And what can a student do if they have been exiled from their toxic ...

Embrace the richness that comes from forming meaningful connections with people from diverse backgrounds. It’s easy to feel overlooked or undervalued if the size of your friend group isn’t very large.

We all know that what happens on our favorite TV shows rarely happens in real life. Most of us won’t have our soulmate burst through the door of a New Year’s Eve party at the stroke of midnight to ...

In this reported essay, associate editor Aiyana Ishmael explores the phenomenon of being the floater friend, and argues that, despite the position being deemed undesirable by pop culture’s depictions ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Tracy Brower writes about joy, community and the future of work. If want more friends—and want greater sense of belonging, you ...

Recently, we wrote about why friend groups fell apart, and members of the BuzzFeed Community submitted their own examples.* Here are more shocking and heartbreaking reasons friend groups imploded. *We ...

Any woman who is a part of a trio close friend group will tell you that all of them are completely different in their own ways. One of them is the energized partier, one of them barely leaves the ...

They’re securing a last-minute dinner reservation for six. They’re calling the Uber—and double-checking that no one left their phone, ID, and wallet behind. They’re confirming the time and place for ...