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Time is the ultimate currency of life. Conversing with others uses up the finite resource that is time, as does reading and learning a musical instrument and playing video games and anything else in life. When I don't feel like playing a game, I don't play it. In the same way, when I don't feel like talking to someone, I don't. Sure, I try to sugar coat it as much as possible through small talk - and even that I sometimes don't do and just ignore the person -, however I will never talk to someone when I don't want to. Of course, some people I want to talk to more frequently than others, as in, I'm in the mood for talking to them more than others. Everything that humans do is for a reason, and if there's an activity without purpose, such as talking to someone when you don't want to, I consider it a waste of time and therefore do not engage in such an activity. I value a person on how efficient they are with their time, and I'd rather someone ignored me than talk to me without without the desire to do so. That way I know that they're not wasting their time. If the person is one that I don't particularly care for, then I wouldn't care if they were being inefficient with their time, as long as they kept me entertained; made it so that my use of time efficient even if theirs wasn't. This is essentially what 'using' people is; wasting their time whilst you enjoy yourself. A connection between two people is formed when neither is wasting their time with one another, when all time spent is meaningful. Any friendship which isn't that is either false, and thus meaningless; filled with small talk and other forms of sugar coating, or parasitic, in which one party benefits while the other suffers. Our time on Earth is limited, so wasting time on the latter two forms of friendships is a waste of time, and thus a waste of life. I'd rather be lonely that surround myself with meaningless friendships.