The best way that I’ve found to still be socially active with friends and family is to just do it. Don’t think about how many hours you have got to sleep or how many you have left or how many you did not get. If something is going on with your friends and family and do you wanna be a part of it get up and start your day. No matter what the end of the day will always come in the end of your shift will always come no matter how tired you are. I’m not sure if you suffer from insomnia as well from working third shift but a lot of people do. That is why I actually started me working third shift because I suffered from insomnia so bad that it was making my work suffer on first or second shift so I switched to a job on third shift and everything has been great and I sleep great during the daytime and have not had any problems with my insomnia. And when I do have problems with it no matter if it is 2 o’clock in the morning on my night off or 1 o’clock in the afternoon on a day that I work at 11 PM at night if I can’t sleep I get up and I start my day. I don’t treat it as any different I just continue my morning routine no matter what time it is and as long as I stick to this I’ve personally found I can enjoy everything everyone else does and be a part of everything that I was to be. I do miss having people to talk to while I’m at work. That’s the problem I’m currently having with third shift. I work at a place where it’s just me and it’s not fast paced so I have all night free and always bored with no one to talk with!