It still gets to me sometimes how most users here only ever liked me for pics

My self-esteem has never been good and I’m so socially inept, I don’t even have any irl friends. Call it me being young and dumb, but when I would post pics of myself in my crop tops on my old account and had all of these people suddenly interested in me, I let it go to my head. Just “wow, people actually like me!” But no, they didn’t. Of course they didn’t. I realize that now that they so obviously only liked me on a superficial level, but at the time, I genuinely believed I was quickly making a lot of friends. Naturally, once I stopped posting pics of myself, all of my “friends” just start slipping away. Losing the best connection I ever made here for reasons I never understood was one thing, but losing most of whom I considered friends I thought I still had completely changed me. Made me very wary of anyone who tries befriending me again and also made me into a bit of a misanthrope, to be honest. I feel stronger and wiser for it now and wish I had this mindset from the beginning. Would probably be living with a lot less hurt and disappointment. But hey, live and learn as they say.