I spend most of my nights (weeknight or or otherwise) with my friends. I'm on Discord with them right now as I write this.

It wouldn't show up in this study at all, because it's online, not in-person. These particular friends live thousands of miles from me.

I also have dedicated nights of the week for seeing my in-person friends, and the amount that I do that has stayed pretty consistent (outside of COVID), but it's never been nearly as much as my virtual friend time. I have friend groups more than a decade old that I've maintained this way.

(The mix is about 75% people I met first in the real world, 25% people I met first or have only met online, if that matters.)

Seems like COVID changed us