This show is almost a parody of the original movie

It's the same with Mr Robot. Actual hackers with real life problems criticize that show for the same reasons that you mentioned.

If you make it too real, the "normies" will stop watching? I guess. Fuck em

agreed. thats what I didnt like about this show. many times it had this awful sitcom vibe. and too many uninteresting and unbelievable characters. (dylan , emma - of course they look both so pretty....*rolleyes*) His social life is as unrealistic as are his excellent social skills.

In the book Norman wasn't that isolated growing up there are a few clues to the fact he had friends.

In chapter one Mother says: Why, even an eight-year old child could recognize it.
They did, too, all your little playmates did, way back then. You're a Mamma's Boy.
That's what they called you, and that's what you were. Were, are, and always will be.
A big, fat, overgrown Mamma's Boy!

Another in Chapter 16: Sam lit a cigarette. I'm going to skip the data about his
school years, and his rejection by the army. But it was after that, when he was
around nineteen, that his mother must have decided Norman wasn't ever going
out into the world on his own. Maybe she deliberately prevented him from
growing up; we'll never actually know just how much she was responsible for
what he became. It was probably then that he began to develop his interest
in occultism, things like that.

So by the book he was 19 before he stopped socialising, which in turn I've always presumed for the Hitchcock film.

And of course in both the movie and the book they talk about if any other young girls went missing, which is why they begin draining the swamp as Mother said Norman killed others.

as the other user said, " In the movie and book, Norman was very isolated. Here he has multiple women chasing him, has a roommate, brother, sister in law, nephew, a step father in jail, a new sheriff who is on to him, a married woman who likes him, her husband, etc etc etc"