I hope you don't mind I make a comment. I agreed with what you wrote, but I'd like to add my experience.

It makes me feel good to know people like me and want to talk to me. There are several people where I work who make a point of talking to me and of course I willingly respond.

But they talk about their own interests and seem to assume I share them. One woman in particular finds me very amusing (I do not try to be, I am usually commenting on something I find irksome or irritating and it must be the way I express myself).

She likes fantasy, cartoons, superheroes and many other whimsical things. The movies, books, internet stuff she talks about and recommends to me are all related to that stuff. I listen politely and comment appropriately to demonstrate I have listened. But this last time she mentioned the same things all over again I finally said her favorite star was not my favorite although I did like him in a particular film (which I could tell she didn't like). So.

I guess what I was trying to do was continue to respect her, but also to indicate that I did not share all of her interests in exactly the same way.

Maybe I didn't do it right.