There are no long drawn out conversions in mp just the odd in-game text msg just saying hello and goodbye. Its easy once you take the risk. A simply hello will break the ice. I had the same problem but then I decided that the worse thing that can happen is that they ignore me. However, if they do ignore my msg then its mostly because they are busy and distracted so missed the popup.
There is no risk, neither I have problems with anything social that needs to be fixed. Just dont like small talk overall, thank you.
I find it correct not to talk about this any further to have some respect to topics author and game related forum overall.