If you don’t like socializing, you won’t have friends. Those things go hand-in-hand.

Maybe examining why you feel this way about socializing would help. Do you really not enjoy all socializing, or just certain things?

Socializing is a major part of life, you could almost say it’s “The Thing”. I’m not saying you need to go throw on a lampshade every day, just that we’re all engaging with each other every day. You may talk to a sibling for a while, then a friend, have lunch with a coworker, take a walk with someone from a class to discuss what you’re not getting.

Without socializing, we may as well go live in a cave, and that’s not good (nor realistic).