Several of my friends have Quests, and we use them regularly with each other, but the catch here is that we all live in different parts of the country, so it's great for some more informal goofing off while we chitchat.
I've played around with the social aspects, and they're interesting, but I don't really have friends with a Quest and I struggle to make friends just by butting in on random conversations, so I haven't really done it much.
Have had a couple of interesting conversations about movies with a movie nerd in a virtual hangout in the Bigscreen app, though, and did some dancing in a virtual nightclub a couple times, which was actually pretty fun (I think I'd feel a little too weird doing going to an actual nightclub nowadays, I'm a little old for the scene).
The fact of the matter is, if you have people you can hang out with in person you're not going to bother with VR, or the metaverse.