Social awkwardness doesn’t mean that you can’t make friends. There are entire social networks based on a group of socially awkward friends who prefer to play World of Warcraft all day and attend sci-fi conventions together. You don’t need to be the life of the party to make friends, in fact most people make friends one at a time, where social conventions play less of a role especially when the other person is as awkward.
Even on that show “Big Bang Theory” you have 4 super smart guys who have a small network of friends.
Any other reasons?
Okay so what exactly is being "socially awkward" anyways? maybe i have the wrong idea of it......
I dont think socially awkward means having interests that are outside of the norm.but rather social skills that are just not in place...for whatver reason.