I basically had zero friends in school, just the odd guys I would say hello too. When I reached 16 in the UK we go to "sixth form" to get A-Levels before University (I never went to Uni) and used to skip half way though when my Mum was at work and just go home to my bro's on Teamspeak and LDAR on WoW and maybe some Runescape, I used to sit on the bus and crave the "hey anon, how are you" messages when I would log on and chit chat.
Even then I was never "in" the circle so to speak, always an outsider, even on Internet forums pre-poz'd Internet I was never in the "popular" circle of posters.