Asking favors vs just interacting with people feels potentially sketchy to me, but on the whole, I think strangers in-person would be well off interacting with

Asking favors vs just interacting with people feels potentially sketchy to me, but on the whole, I think strangers in-person would be well off interacting with each other more these days, not less. I've always liked how Terry Pratchett put it: “Individuals aren't naturally paid-up members of the human race, except biologically. They need to be bounced around by the Brownian motion of society, which is a mechanism by which human beings constantly remind one another that they are...well...human beings.”