Although I don’t get to do it as often, I love checking out a comment section on some posts and getting something going in there and some good banter back and forth. That’s an interesting thing and I think is an important element of human interaction for sure!
What’s interesting is thankfully most of the people I work with, we don’t talk about the lame shallow TV stuff or entertainment buzz. There is some of that and maybe because I don’t engage with that type of stuff I don’t get included in it but we talk often about more substantive things like hobbies, home improvements and things of that nature that have impacts on our life and not just a bunch of mindless crap. I loathe the day where I will eventually work with people that just talk about the latest entertainment BS lol.
I also prefer to be the person in the middle in a lot of ways, not least but not most interesting. Allows you to blend into more situations.
So much of our lives are curated, we don't necessarily get to have good conversations with strangers. Go to a party these days, nearly everyone is known and similar - no one wants to talk about anything that actually matters, they would rather avoid it because it "kills the mood". Nothing kills the mood more than a collapsing society.