Should I still pay for xbox gold membership?

My friends keep telling me to buy gold membership so we can play GTA online and talk in a party. I predict that we will do some boring missions again and they are kind of jackass trolls. They go play minecraft or dark souls anyways, saying that they are bored. I will also be busy with soccer in a few weeks and harder classes in school this year. I will probably only have time to play on the weekends, and i don't know if 2 and a half days every week is worth the membership fee. I wish I had a ps3, which I did but my jackass brother sold it, but none of my friends have it because everyone's mom bought their kid an xbox.

I got gold myself. If you buy it online it's only about 40 bucksfor 13 months, not tht much. You get at least 2 free games each month as a gold member, ane at the start and one halfway the month. Now there's an update that you don't have to get gold to play online. I'd suggest that you check out if it works for gta without paying for it, and otherwise, i don't play online that much, i just use it for the free games and discounts.