Friday and Saturday night? You have to get out of the house, period. Even if it's to go to the local cinema and watch a movie by yourself, get out of the house. Take some time to get ready, do your hair, put on a good outfit, look good. You do this so you feel confident and positive about yourself.

Take some time walking around, find a place to get a bite to eat like a street food vendor or bar. Walk around and practice walking tall, confident grin and shoulders back. Nobody but you knows that you have no plans and no available friends. You are just a well-groomed guy that seems to be having a good night.

If you simply walk around you have a 100% more chance of stumbling on a door to a function where the security guard is distracted and you can walk in an pretend you know about dentistry or land development, than if you were at home.

You have a 100% more chance of sitting at a bar and seeing a girl sitting by herself and you walking up to her and suggesting you both help each other out and not look like loners while you wait for your friends to come, than if you were at home. (Note this play requires a phone check later to either "go and meet at another bar" or "find something else to do as they have bailed to hang out with their girlfriends".)

There are endless possibilities if you just get out and do something. Heck, maybe 60% of the time you go home again after a few hours after speaking to no one but you may have learnt something about observing a social interaction or you just felt good being noticed because you were dressed and groomed well.

Learn whatever I want. It used to be physics, now theology, sometimes math, languages etc. Learning improves conversation. Also brainstorming business or money schemes.
But this is me, who is currently mostly Beta. On the bright side though, I am getting better at stuff

Hit up the local arcade so I can play some DDR, or maybe check out the local tabletop game store to see if anybody's running a game I could sit in on.

Play chess. no limit holdem, reading books and furiously masturbating

rn I'm drawing. I'm trying to get kinda good at caricature art so I could get a job working at a Six Flags or some other amusement park for next summer. I think it'd be kinda cool to have that job as it would force me to be somewhat social and to challenge myself with each subject. Also, as far as hobbies go, it's pretty cheap but can be rewarding.

Not a great artist yet, haha, but you know there's something cathartic about doodling in its own right, I guess.

Last night I went to the gym for nearly 2 hours, but while I was at the gym I was passively texting people to see what they were up to, ended up going for a few beers in the city with a couple friends and friends of friends.

Stay in or go out:

Stay in: read, meditate, play in the backyard with my dogs, fuck my wife, study, lift in my garage gym, barbecue, shit around online and find sales leads for my job, smoke my pipe or a cigar, etc.

Go out: go to a diner/coffee shop and people-watch. Friday night Magic (The Gathering -- I don't play but I like watching/socializing). Accessory work at the local gym since I only have a power rack and deadlift platform in my garage. Take my dog for a walk. Go to an AA meeting (this one is pretty specific to recovering addicts/alcoholics, but sometimes we get Fight Club types that just want to share in the program since the 12 steps are actually a pretty decent way to improve your life).

I don't drink anyway so bars get pretty boring for me anyway unless there's a band I want to see.

I work every friday/saturday nights except when I have something planned ahead with friends. If not, playing/writing new drum grooves or go out by myself.

I don't know if I'm doing it right, but lately stay-at-home and listen to an audio book while cleaning, applying for new jobs and bulk cooking. Early lights out to get to the pool, gym and farmers market in the AM.

Used to go out solo and hang or see a movie, but my prime focus has been saving 43% of my income because of job/relocation prospects, and a general interest in financial independence.

Seeing the wide range of activities people do on here is interesting. From video games and books to rockin out with their cocks out.

Theres so many ways to live you're life. This really shows that there is no beaten path to your own happiness, just do what you like.

Crawl into the foetal position, try not to cry, cry anyway.

Or watch a movie by myself and have a nice cold class of rum and coke, journaling and light reading before getting an early night

Friday night is actually my favourite night to go to the climbing gym I joined a month ago. Specifically a bouldering gym so I don't need to bring someone to belay me (which I don't have, because I don't have any climbing buddies yet). Lots of fun, and I can slowly feel myself getting better.

What is TRP's opinion on meetups?

It's Saturday night and I'm off to a Beethoven-concert. Maybe, I'll go out afterwards just to see if the town is dead in vacation-mode or if there's any hope out there. Next week it will be family getting together with my family because it's summer. I'll have some wine by with him by the sea with my cousin talking about economics late at night, just us guys and a fire burning.

I travel quite a bit and have had some Friday nights with little options. Don't fall into the fear of missing out bullshit.

A) Go to the gym and crush it. B) Apply for 5 jobs that you would love(does great things for the mindset going into the week) C) Write your goals down, put on some music and enjoy having time with yourself

Just go sit down at a bar and work on socializing.. Meeting new people is fun.. Go play pool.. Go to the gym..anything can be productive if you have the right mindset