I'm glad you liked them! Pleasure meeting you as well. It's definitely a balance. I see social media platforms and the Internet in general a fantastic place for people who tend towards introversion. I can't find it right now, but Derek Sivers had a really good article on this. He gets a bunch of emails from people and socializes with people all around the world!

I like hearing that you've venture out and socialized in person. It's something about the our mamilian nature that makes it feel so amazing. I tihnk you're aboslutely right. If Steem is used with awareness and a means to achieve a goal that helps the world, then it will increase general happiness :D

Two resources comes to my mind: 1) a book called A General Theory of Love talking about the consequecnes of no physical/emtional connection and why technology doesn't supplement it fully. 2)Malcolm Gladwell's idea, "Why the Revolution won't be tweeted",a on weak ties and strong ties, and how social media creates tight weak ties while events that we met at make tight strong ties. Both are beneficial of course!