Are people interested in others?

Hello!

There is one thing that bothers me.

Some time ago I've read a book about communication with others and it said something like "ask people about themselves and they will be happy to chat with you". Well since that I applied this advice and it seems people do like to speak with me. Because... I ask many questions.

And today I had a typical situation. Today I spent about 2 hours with my... err... friend I guess. We had one common cause and during solving it we had a conversation. And... 95% of time she was speaking about her problems, life, plans and etc. 5% of time I was answering her questions... about that common cause. So it seems for me people aren't interested in others... sometimes at all.

When people do ask something it's usually some primitive stuff like "what are you doing","how do you do" and etc.

So... I know many just MAAANY things about people around me. Usually you don't even need to torture them to get some private information. And they know only some general stuff about me and are okay with it. Of course, I don't like to speak much about my life and etc. But I would be satisfied if she or some other with whom I speak ask me sometimes about my thoughts at least few questions....

Is it a common situation? Or maybe I have some problems with my life/personality that people aren't really interested in me. However I don't think that my life is much boring than theirs...