I can really identify with this. It not only seems useless to me but more than a little awkward - like the kind of useless small talk that you don't know how to respond to without sounding equally vapid. It kind of makes me feel like we're wasting time acting out some sort of farce...like it's just 'going through the motions'. To be fair, I feel this way about many of my everyday interactions with people and I believe I also have what is formally referred to as a dismissive avoidant attachment style...
People are weird.