Thank you for your responses everyone.

zapatoes: I'm glad that I have found someone who relates to me. It's all about the quality of friends and not the quantity.

TishaBuv: Got a special shout out to you and thank you for your helpful and insightful response. Already feel better that you've understood my situation and have reminded me maybe so-called friends are really friends when they explode over a social mistake. Good point... The more I have stewed upon the OP the more I've thought about that point. I've heard of the "awkward extrovert" and the "gregarious introvert" anyway....

Background Noise: I can relate to you on all those levels. I come from a very analytically-minded family so unfortunately I am guilty of over-thinking and often hyper-focus on some awkward/off-moment that I completely forget what I was originally overthinking about. I think I'm pretty decent socially but most people I have met tend to put the microscope on me to watch for every mistake I seem to make. Those who criticize people for social blunders seem to speak the loudest (often with a megaphone!). This is also the reason I'm embracing my singleness.

P.S. to Background Noise: I see you are pretty new here so welcome to PC! I hope that you've found this forum useful and have been finding an online family here like I have!