GTA V Problems

A week after the GTA V Online release, I have yet to play more than ten minutes online with other players. Any session I find with online with other, living human beings I'm immediately booted from. My last session lasted only about one minute. I logged on, looked to see who else was in that world and saw only one other human. Then I was booted. Only one in about six attempts to log in lands me on a world with other players. The first character I created seems to have been permanently deleted from the main servers.I had to replace him with a new character and go through the first few trainging missions again. There's no telling if this won't happen again. I wasn't even able to connect for most of the past two days. I can't progress without playing with other living people.