The viewing thing is misleading. Post and reply are two reads, as it refreshes after you post so you might have as many as 6 views be you for your 3 responses. Too, one reads, then posts, then it refreshes; that's perhaps 9 views per post so there's perhaps 54 with just your 6 people posting and each person's response gets its own views so the more responses, the more exponential the views get. If someone reads someone else's response and puts a hug in there for a response, etc., there's extra views that one does not even realize.

If this is true, then you have no idea the relief I get from that!!! I thought each person who viewed the thread was counted only once. It's been driving me nuts on here thinking that many people had viewed and not cared a da** to put their two cents in. I don't always look for advice per se but rather points of view and I see these numbers; it can just be overwhelming here at times. Thank you for lifting the weight off of me!
There's a fine line between living in one's self and out in the world. If you are afraid of what's inside yourself, then you are going to run out into the world and live on Facebook (been there, done that) and if you are afraid of being out in the world and what judgment you feel is there then you are going to stay inside yourself (been there, done that too).
Been there, done those too.

I like the online world because I can do a little practicing and try out things that one can't do real time/in person. I can work with how I feel without anyone else confusing me or making me feel judged, etc. I can practice expressing myself, in writing, which I can edit/correct and learn ways of saying things that I have trouble working with in person. I can see what works in the online world and try it out in the real world, too.
I totally get this part, and use this tactic as well.

The need to socialize can mean many things to me; I might be avoiding something or trying to work out something in myself, it depends.