Wanting to be alone when you're working is not antisocial. If you claim to be able to do serious work while being constantly interrupted by people -- whether on

Wanting to be alone when you're working is not antisocial. If you claim to be able to do serious work while being constantly interrupted by people -- whether on IM, IRC or face to face -- then one of three possibilities exist: 1. You are a superhuman with Buddha-like concentration. 2. You're lying. 3. You're doing trivial work. However, it's a major problem if the OP goes out of his way to avoid communicating with people after his work session. In that case, none of the work he did has value. Code that other people can't understand is worse than no code at all. There is a time for work and a time for communicating your work to other people. You cannot do both at the same time.