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Also voting for a DSLR. If this were the days of film, people here wouldn't hesitate to suggest an SLR over anything else and yes, bridge versions did exist at that time. In reality, the same principles apply.
You say you know nothing about real photography but that evidently isn't true. You have at least recognised an absence of quality in your own work and wish to improve on that and understanding the end result is potentially the most important thing to learn when it comes to photography. If you were happy with pictures of silhouettes of your gurning friends as pinpoints in front of the cropped Eiffel Tower or the arse of that seagull that flew kind of close, you wouldn't be asking for help.
If you go for a bridge camera and want to go further, you'll have a bridge camera that you'll have to sell at a dismal fraction of the price. If you have even a cheap DSLR from a manufacturer with a large range, you can upgrade the body whilst retaining the lense or, more importantly, upgrade the lense while retaining the body. At the end of the day you may not get into it, but at least you won't be put off by the limitations of the equipment and you'll still have a decent piece of kit for the times you do want to take pictures. You've already wasted money on worse things than this.
Give it an honest go though. Read a book and be your own harsh critic. Take advice and experiment.