Does anyone feel like society thinks its really easy for us to make friends?

Like my parents are always saying "just make more friends by socializing, talk to people" like it's that easy. I always have to make excuses as to why i'm not hanging out with my non existent friends that I made up. and I had a friend that I was way too clingy around, like I was so scared of being seen alone I just kinda followed around . so then she got kinda fed up (my fault I kinda feel bad) and she told me to, and I quote "make more friends" to my face. so yeah, I guess its just kinda annoying when people just expect you to be able to just naturally be able to make friends.