[watwut]

> Picking up hobbies so that you have a socially acceptable excuse to interact with to people is ass-backwards.

It is and WAS most normal thing in the world. Some people did it subconsciously, them being interested I people lead them to be interested in the same things as those people are interested in. Others did it consciously "everyone seems to gather at pool, let's go to pool". Or just, "I am going to bake a cake to have excuse to give it to people and to get compliments".

Doing things and hobbies to be with others, to impress them was normal human behavior for millenia.