• Men who watch television now spend 7 hours in front of the TV for every hour they spend hanging out with somebody outside their home.

• The typical female pet owner spends more time actively engaged with her pet than she spends in face-to-face contact with friends of her own species.

• Since the early 2000s, the amount of time that Americans say they spend helping or caring for people outside their nuclear family has declined by more than a third.

Between 2003 and 2024, the amount of time that Americans spent attending or hosting a social event declined by 50 percent. Almost every age group cut their party time in half in the last two decades. For young people, the decline was even worse. Last year, Americans aged 15-to-24 spent 70 percent less time attending or hosting parties than they did in 2003.