In this era, many young people prefer to spend their leisure time with their friends instead of spending time with their families. From my perspective, this is a negative development as well as positive because, we need to spend our time with friends as we need to release the stress of whole day. Therefore, we need to spend our free time with our family as well as with friends to discuss our daily routines.
Nowadays, life has become very busy and difficult because we are busy all the day to earn money. Parents are struggling for their children all the day to feed them or to provide them a healthy or luxury lifestyle. However, people spend their time with friends because they need to release the stress of whole day or they enjoy spending time in watching movie and shopping. Moreover, young people often spend more time with their friends as they feel more comfortable by sharing there problems.
On the positive side, there are also many positive reason for spending time with friends as we can develop important socail skills and also we know how to deal with people. Furthermore, this help build connections, and if you need any work done, you can get it done through them easily. Spending little time with family can cause weakness in our relation and young people may miss value able advice and support from their parents.
To sum up, both have their own value we just need to keep balance between them not too much with friends as it weakens family relations and not too much with family which can lose your connections.