No, think about it. Handling a group of people as a society is easier to handle in the background since it's more about who you know not what you know about the

No, think about it. Handling a group of people as a society is easier to handle in the background since it's more about who you know not what you know about them in precise form. In a one-on-one setting you're responding to continually changing behaviors of that person (day-to-day life changes like mood, health, and so forth). In that situation you have to put all your effort to focus on them. It's why some people are better at picking up those cues than others (personal example for me would be not picking up on when someone is feeling ill or down about something). The more you get personal with someone the more you have to get to know them, basically.