I'm with you. I got my fill of socializing with AOL years ago. I used to host a genealogy and Civil War chat room in the evenings. That was enough for me, and it got old real fast. I'm a fairly private person. If I want to socialize with anyone, I'll call them or send them an email. This site, and a UK archaeology-related site are the only two groups that I belong to.
Was that the old Mason-Dixon Line AOL CW chat room? I remember it well. It was often fun.
Ironic. FaceBook,Myspace,Twitter are called Social Websites, but they are not about socializing at all.
They are really about avoiding social contact, even to the point of texting a 'friend' who is sitting 10 feet away from you, rather than speak to them in person.
People walk down the street, or ride in vehicles, totally absorbed into texting on one of these websites, oblivious to the other humans around them.
I think these 'social websites' serve a purpose (like make the owners rich) and can 'aid' us in our lives, but in the end, they are what you make of them.