I am extremely introverted, too. But I have stopped looking for friends. I think that it doesn't help that I live in one of the most rural areas of the eastern US (about 2.5 people per square mile). But I figure that, instead of worrying and struggling, it is much less stressful to just be Zen, and then if whatever powers that do or do not influence our lives want to send a good friend my way, then so be it, but if not then so be that, too. :P

I was a far more sociable person before my ex- and I split up. I guess it has been 12 years now, since then, but I still just want to be alone, LOL.

That is one of the wonderful things about the internet. It allows such a wider connecting of minds for people like me who are so far out in the boondocks. I still feel like there is something a bit nihilistic about internet friendships, but I suppose even still, it is still better than being lonesome and depressed, hahaha.