I definitely feel this way.

Social media let's us have a conversation with people who aren't right in front if us. It's a little more public and a lot lower bandwidth. When we have multiple posts and multiple comment threads it's like trying to have several in person conversations simultaneously--doesn't work well.

I wonder if we would feel less fragmented if we only had one post or comment thread going at a time. Maybe a thirty second interruption isn't so big a deal if you are switching between only two tasks, subjects. It's the sheer number of simultaneous but different conversations that makes it especially brutalizing.