Is this a sign someone likes talking to me?

I have a hard time telling lol. So i have a friend(? acquantance?). I always have a hard time telling whether someone actually genuinely likes talking to me.
If this friend complains to me about people he doesn’t like, tells me about new people he talks to, and tells me about people he finds nice to talk to, does this mean he enjoys talking to me?
We happen to see each other quite a bit because of school so it’s either he likes talking to me specifically so he shares these things with me, or he just tells me these things because he wants to talk and it’s convenient to talk to me. Hoping it’s the former because I really enjoy talking to him. But our personalities are quite different so I’m surprised someone as loud and funny as him would want to talk to someone as boring as me.
Thanks in advance!