Here is the 2016 edition of interesting articles on friendship.

• An Ivy League professor says there are only three types of friendships we make from Quartz
• Ease of Settling In Index: Finding Friends from InterNations
• Reclaiming Friendship: A Visual Taxonomy of Platonic Relationships to Counter the Commodification of the Word “Friend” from Brain Pickings
• Do your friends actually like you? from The NY Times
• The companions of my heart: On making friends on the internet from Slate
• Platonic dating apps by J. Walter Thompson Intelligence
• Get Over the Stigma That Something’s Wrong With You Because You Want More Friends from Lifehacker
• Half of Your Friends Probably Don’t Think of You As a Friend from NY Magazine
• Most people aren’t resilient to life’s hardships, researchers find from Quartz
• The Science of Making Friends from the Wall Street Journal (paywall)
• Study shows people have an upper limit on the number of friends they can add to their social network from Phys.org
• Why Smart People are Better Off with Fewer Friends from the Washington Post
• Disposable Friendships in a Mobile World from The Atlantic