They had a fucking great time and he just doesn't want to explain what they were really doing/talking about.
"Uhh, we played wooords...and John says hi.... that'd about it, nothing interesting, really...."

I hate trying to remember and recite what people talked about. I have a hard time remembering shit and it makes me bad being acutely aware that I forget things so easily

While nice to know, I wouldn't want to waste in person time talking about that. You can tell me about it over text or something. It's a lot more difficult to shoot the shit over text. That's an in person thing.

Why would you waste time with your best friends with fucking smalltalk?

This actually just sounds like old friend shit. You pick up where you left off. No one is going out as a group of ten on what I assume is a camping trip or retreat to talk about the things they are taking a break from. They talked about the same dumb shit that everyone talks about when you don't have all the stresses of life on you.

I don't even want to hear any of that over text at all. I can Google African countries, I don't need my friends to tell me.

The best part of this comment is that I can't tell which side you're supporting.

I once visited a good friend from high school I hadn't seen in years only to ask in general how things where going luckily my mom wanted to say hi too and asked real questions

Why is the text/font like that? It looks like it was all cut out and pasted in.

Because it's fake. We are flooded again with stories "that happened."