What you are talking about is nepotism. Networking is where people, usually former colleagues, will remember you (positively) when their employer asks them "He

What you are talking about is nepotism. Networking is where people, usually former colleagues, will remember you (positively) when their employer asks them "Hey, we need someone who can do X?" And vice versa. If you can't make friends with people you work with, that will make networking hard or impossible but you can't blame that on "networking".