Who here can honestly say they have added many new people to their friends list? I know mine is completely made up of people I was friends with before the game was even released. When I played xi, I made a ton of friends. When I played wow pre-dungeon finder, I made tons of friends. Yes I am sure some of you have huge fc's and social linkshells that you might do a few things with a few of the members from time to time. Maybe even a few of you do stuff with them exclusively. But nothing in the game (maybe coil, but I haven't done that yet) really forces you to spend much time with other players.

Personally I think DF is largely to blame. Remember when people used to have to actually shout, search friends lists and guilds/linkshells ect.. to make parties, and then you had to actually walk to the camp/dungeon, and you had to know where it was at (its funny how many people have no clue where a dungeon is, no reason when you can insta-que).