In which a column from a person with no social skills advises people with no social skills not to make friends at work, because they have no social skills and they'll fuck it up . . .

You meet people at work because it's work and they're people. If you can't set boundaries between your work role and your personal life, and negotiate the sometimes-complicated human interactions that are the boundaries between these things, that's a "you" problem, not an "us" problem.

No, your co-workers don't have to be your friends. Sometimes they shouldn't become your friends. Occasionally, though, in appropriate contexts, they can become your friends. Even if a social cripple who's a wannabe "influencer" wrote a column on the internet trying to rationalize why none of their co-workers ever wanted to be their friend.