Why does my Flash Drive always blink?

I may be paranoid, but it seems only lately that my flash drive is always blinking when I have it plugged into one of my ports of my four port Belkin that I have plugged into the rear port of my Mac. It's like it is constantly being accessed even when I close out the spread sheet (numbers) files that I was using and even when I close out the main list of directories on the drive.  It still blinks.  Then when I try to eject it, a message pops up that it won't eject because it is used by numbers.  So in frustration and paranoia I just pull the flash drive out of the socket, since I suspect that something in my computer out of my control is reading it. I close out the files and directories by clicking on the red close dots in the upper left.  Am I doing the closing wrong?
Thanks for any help even if it's condescending.

Pressing the red button at the top left hand corner of the application window will not completely quit the application, therefore the application is still accessing your flash drive without you even using that application. If you go to the apple logo at the top left hand corner of the desktop and go to force quit, you will see applications that are currently running in the background on your mac. Now, if you have "numbers" opened, go to application folder in Finder, click on numbers and go to the top left corner of the Status bar at the top. You will see "Numbers" next to the Apple Logo, click on that and press quit. Utilize this method for all applications.

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