How Dare I Do That!

Really didn't intend to post anything today. Just thought I would sneak in and read others' blogs , catch up (since I am still behind on my reading here), and chill out.
However, ahem!...visited another site before this one. It is more of a social interaction and information site, and although I don't blog there, I do occasionally comment on others' posts. There is a "bar" on the right side of the home page of the site which details current activity of members who are posting or commenting. My name must have popped up too much to suit someone. Ohhh yeah.
Evidently I attracted the attention of one of the more active members there who is very insecure about her position or popularity ranking on the site.
She had requested my friendship and has been nice...until I made the mistake of not being so invisible today. Oops!
Since I saw several posts of interest to me today, and had the time to comment I did. Nothing earth shattering or lengthy; usually just thanking them for sharing their views, and to one for the thought provoking questions he posed. Almost immediately, she messaged me to say that I must be feeling very chipper today as I was "all over the site and commenting on everything!" One might have thought that I was some demented person run amok with a machete whacking off members' heads. Now, lest you think that I am misinterpreting and/or overreacting...please read on..... 
She continued by telling me her current popularity rating on the site;
 (The site ranks members, and she checks her postion every day, she says!) and then proceeded to tell me about all the men on the site who were "hot" for her and who offered her "the world on a platter", and who offered to service her "needs". Needless to say, I will spare you the details of that tid bit. She informed me further of her profile page views being in the hundreds (or was it thousands? I honestly cannot recall), and her plans to promote herself and move even further up in the popularity ratings. Ok. Ahem!
 It was one of those moments of thinking, "Honey, please! Who are you trying to convince of your worth, me or yourself?"
No, of course, I didn't say that! 
The site is not a game to me, and I am content to go there, read, learn, and interact with some of the other members on occasion. It was just sad to me that this otherwise intelligent, creative, attractive and young (40s) woman feels so easily threatened by an old fart like me who is not even that active on the site; not there (plainly states in my profile) for romance or anything intimate, just friendship; and who has encouraged her writing (blogs, journal, and poetry). How empty does one's life have to be to need that kind of validation?
Yes, I know. There are people on facebook, and other social networking or interaction sites, as well as folks who blog on sites such as this who have a Junior High mentality of collecting names on their friends list, most of whom they have never met and never will, and have little to no online interaction with; but who add to the "numbers", and thus to their perception of their value (one might guess), since they boast about their "numbers". Not talking about people who are making money on their blogs and are therefore bound to be tied to the numbers, but those who seem to get some genuine sense of satisfaction by the amount of names on their page. Interesting. Just cannot wrap my mind around that, much less really relate to it. As a close (real) friend of mine says, "Whatever floats their boat". That is true, I suppose. We are all different, with different backgrounds, experiences, and needs. 
Not sure that there is any message in all of this, other than the fact that at my age, I am still stunned sometimes by human behavior. lol