alt Hacker News> He wasn't asking knowledgable friends for advice, he was asking questions to strangers about linux on IRC.
A stranger is a friend you haven't made yet. Asking strangers is one good way to make friends.
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Nursie • today at 10:03 AM
It's true, but it's far from the only way to break the ice.
Really on top of the particularly narrow viewpoint the OP has on life and human relations, I find the core notion itself absurd - "In the future because of X, Y and Z, why will people bother to socialise?"
Because ... people like socialising.
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Then ask strangers about identifying birds instead of Linux.