You should leave the internet and never return for anything other than porn. The majority of people I know don't use the internet for serious communication outside of work. Looking at less geeky internet sites isn't going to help you, the fact that you're spending so much of your time sitting alone in your room looking at internet sites (regardless of what is one them) is the problem. Take up a sociable hobby, even if it's something like chess. Talking to people in real time is a lot harder than over the internet as I'm sure you've worked out by now, and even if the people you're talking to are all chess fanatics they'll probably have a hell of a lot more social skills than the average heavy internet user.

As for the people who are on the internet you have to take into account the reason why they came to the internet to look for friends in the first place, instead of making friends with the people they see in real life everyday. Basically if your friends online have told you that you are a good talker, good looking etc., that doesn't necessarily mean you will be considered as such by the majority of the population who lives outside the network of tubes.

Basically it is retarded to ask people who spend lots of time on the internet how to act like a person spends very little time on the internet. Which is what >>2 said and I've really just wasted a lot of time.