No, that's just faffing around. The difference is that networking isn't about making friends, it's about making mutually beneficial business relationships. What I'm saying is that it's possible to be genuinely interested in someone's business ideas and abilities, and genuinely want them to succeed, and genuinely be willing to put in the effort to help them do that.
When you're legitimately interested and genuine, it's just called 'meeting people and making friends'.