Another question I ask myself quite a bit: if you would prefer to spend time in a different way, why aren't you?  It's easy to come up with automatic excuses (I have no shortage of them, personally) but if I dig deeper, most don't hold up very well.

elvismercury

This is how the ‘alone’ group evolved 

![percentage-of-americans-living-alone-by-age.png](https://m.stacker.news/22704)

oliverweiss

charts_and_numbers

Who do Americans spend time with over their lives?

A couple of questions this raises:

1. How would the people prefer to spend their time.
2. How does this compare to 100 years ago.