Hi Zaythe, I recommend you join any English speaking FC. From what I've noticed, linkshells are used these days for some specific purpose, like for raiding or smaller groups of people who usually have same objectives to avoid cluttering FC chat (well, it tends to be noisy in our FC and I'd like to avoid going off-topic thus the extra linkshell).

Joining an FC will help you build relationships in-game and with an active and very social FC, you may find yourself creating your own linkshell one day ^_^

Hope that made sense >_<