Community of strangers

Some times I wonder what's happening to us. I don't think I like what our culture has become. My current beef is with the lack of conversation. I enjoy sitting down with someone and talking but those days seem to have all but disappeared. Now it's always hanging out with the group or going out and doing something. Now how are you supposed to get to know anyone like that? People have so much interesting things to them; stories, knowledge, opinions that you would never find out with out talking with them. Now it seems that such things are unwelcome or worse "mean something". What the frig!?! Seriously it would make me scream if I was prone to emotional outbursts. Every once and a while I score a good conversation with someone, and I love it. You get to know the person, you get to learn new things and you get some new insights. Of course these feelings of frustration tend to sit at a low level burn until someone is surprised or offended because they didn't know something about me. When every they make a comment along those lines it always makes me want to snap back "Did you ever ask?" Seriously I know I'm not that hard to know, just ask. I try to be as straight forward with others but they tend to get offended or question my motives. What the hell is wrong with wanting to get to know someone? I have been at this university for 6 months now and I barely know the people here. Some people have responded it's because I don't often join in group activities. So does the fact that I don't like large groups make me less worthy of your time because it sure seems that way. Actually those of us who don't hang out as much with the groups definitely seem to get back burnered. Then again what do I care? Better yet should I care? Of course I should and so should others but people really seem to appreciate being a community of strangers. Or maybe they just aren't honest with themselves, who knows.