Article says "The share of adults who say they regularly have friends over has declined 70 percent since 1975", but this may not be an accurate comparison:

> Until 1985, the survey included only married households.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDB_Needham_Life_Style_Surveys

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inanutshellus 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Doesn't that seems like a more accurate measurement? what's the percentage of adults who check "yes" for "friends i'm hoping to hook up with" versus those that say "oooh, you mean actual friends"?

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vidarh 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Does it? It means different types of socialising a lot of the time, but couples often merges friend groups and I could definitely see a case for some subset of those friend groups ending up meeting up more regularly. I don't know. It'd be interesting to see data broken down by relationship status.

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kjs3 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Someone is projecting.

	▲	inanutshellus an hour ago \| parent [-]
		A percentage of people going to say "Yes" and not mean the same thing as I mean when I say that. That's all I'm saying.