Want more time with friends? It’s the ordinary things that matter.

Americans today spend less than half the time with friends they did 20 years ago. I dug into the data to find a solution to that.

I started by asking readers to tell me their ages. The project unfolds based on reader inputs.

With data and charts, I explained the reasons behind:

I also provided solutions by tapping into the microdata — diaries of social-overachievers: