Am I being phased out?

Okay, I've just gotten back for my second year of Uni - well, I've been back for about a week and a half, but everyone else has been back for 3 weeks; I was delayed by a mass of random things which I had to sort out - and I've been attempting to catch up with some of my mates from halls last year, through various methods - phone, e-mail, Facebook etc.

Anyways; I started it basically as soon as I got back, and so far I've had...no replies.

Now, this probably wouldn't worry me normally; it is the start of the year after all, and they're probably all getting settled into their new flats - even though I have found time to attempt to catch up, I can hardly expect them to settle in as quickly as I have, can I? But then on Friday, when I was walking back from lectures, I spotted one of my mates across the street! I called out her name and waved, and she actually looked right at me, then vanished into a large bookshop. I tried going in to the shop - in case she hadn't recognised me - and she had disappeared!

I then walked right past a small group of my mates yesterday - I didn't recognise them initially - as you don't when you haven't seen someone for six months - but it clicked about five steps later. So I turn around, and within those five steps the had again disappeared into a shop! I had no idea which one - my back was turned, obviously - so I didn't try to follow, figuring maybe that I had them recognised wrong.

And I've been trying to phone people all of this weekend, and I'm getting answer-machines all the time; they're not wrong numbers, they're just not picking up!

So...am I getting phased out (as Friends put it...I honestly couldn't think of a better phrase)? It's frustrating, because I find it really difficult to make friends - I'm a massive introvert - and I thought I had made a decent bunch that I could spend time with throughout my Uni career. So if they're phasing me out, then all the effort I put into making them my friends is kinda gone to waste.

Thoughts! Opinions! Ego-boosts! Please!!

Thanks for the ego boost, mate

No, I'm 100% certain they're real. They've got Facebook identites (unless, of course, Facebook is a figment of my imagination, in which case I'd be fairly scared...), phoning them gets their answer machines and I recognise their voices, etc. etc.

What is Facebook?

Ask anyone, they'll never have heard of it.

Also, the phone messages could easily be as much part of your imagination as the people are....you phone their number and instead of hearing the ''you have dialed an incorrect number' message you think you hear their voice instead....all part of you coming to realise they are nothing but fake, unreal people who you are actually better off not having as part of your life

(The last bit could well be true whether or not these people actually exist )

DUDE!! I've not got a frickin' mental illness! (sorry if that's a little un-PC, but frankly you're annoying me)

http://www.facebook.com/

Ask any student, they'll have heard of it! Yeesh.

It;s just a bit of fun and I was being serious with the bit after the '...' above (hence the little bit in brackets at the end).

Yeah, fun. Trying to make someone think they're suffering from delusions. That's fun, that is. I do it all the time.

Yeah, fun. Trying to make someone think they're suffering from delusions. That's fun, that is. I do it all the time.

I don't mean to make fun, but...[/quote
So forgive me for taking his posts seriously.

*rolls eyes*

No, not really, no.

Generally when people prefix what they're about to say with something like that, they're going to say something that would otherwise be construed as making fun, but in the situation is actually not.

But thanks for not helping. Really, I don't appreciate it.