There are a lot lf good points being made here.

But another one is - did you come into the game expecting a one-player game with a lot of other one-player people? Because if so, you haven't even started playing the game yet. IMHO, make sure, as someone else mentioned, you get a good free company and a linkshell or two (I have 6 active right now myself), and interact more and make a group of friends or people you can do a lot of game play with. Learn stuff, make mistakes and learn to laugh about it, hear heroic and horror stories. It's a massive game right now from where you are - immerse yourself in it. That's what Final Fantasy to me has always been about.