If you actually have people willing to talk with you and you feel that your inability to socialize is what's holding you back from making friends.I'll go against the wave and say to actively try and improve your social skills.Practice talking in the mirror,watch self help youtube videos,go on random rooms on discord and practice speaking with strangers, and read self help books.As someone who will have to live the rest of his life on his lonesome and have absolutely no one to talk to , I'd say take this chance.Living a life of utter seclusion,is not a life worth living at all.I know in the future ,when even my parents are not with me ,I will always have the shadow of suicidal or extreme thoughts over my head regardless of whether my standard of living has improved or not. Though, if your "friends" turn out to just use you and make fun of you or is a bad influence ,I'd say it's better to live a life alone than with bad company but you have to use your own discretion.