I never had friends in real life who were into the show, actually most of them were outright anti MLP. Eventually, I did end up making some good friends online who loved the show. We would join up in one big group on skype and just hang out for hours, but they're all gone now. Most of them just stopped coming online, others changed their usernames and stopped responding and some removed me from their friends list and I haven't heard from them since. I haven't been able to find a good, close group of friends like that since. Forums are a great place to go to when I'm feeling like indulging my love of the fandoms creative content or throw my input in a random topic but it still feels like a kinda lonely experience to me. I'd love to have another group that I could just hang out with again but it seems that the people that want that kind of thing are already in their own circles of friends and I guess I just haven't found where I can fit in again.
So yeah, I am feelin' rather alone in my bronyhood right now but it may turn around, you never know.