Hmmm...I can say as a teenager I did spend an inordinate amount of time alone. I spent a lot of time on forums and chatting with my online friends and not much with IRL friends. Straight up until my senior year, I suppose. Then I started dating an older guy so I was out fairly often with him and his friends, but honestly I never helped the immense loneliness I felt. Probably because we didn't have a good relationship.

When I was 20 I was dating my now husband so once again I was out often. But honestly if I had never met him I would have been alone all the time. I'm terrible at making my own friends. Even now I only hang out with my brother and his girlfriend and only because we live with them.