Funnily enough, I’m usually great in social situations. Supposedly I’m even quite charming, so I’m told.
Basically what I’m saying is, you don’t know if the people you’re talking to are going to be in the 1% of people that aren’t terrible until you’ve wasted a lot of time on them. Even then, people change on a dime later on so you can still be tricked. Handman said he’s got a social circle that he doesn’t like so obviously he knows that he’s not incapable of finding people to interact with.
The problem isn’t that there’s this untapped sea of beautiful wonderful friendly people that is just waiting to be befriended, it’s that such people are rarer than a pregnant virgin.