I finally figured out why Facebook and Instagram exhausts me.

I was bringing a dissertation to a pep rally.

Most people engage with high-comment posts by:

→ Skimming the top 10-20 comments

→ Commenting for self-expression, not contribution

→ Treating "me too" as the point, not redundancy

My instinct (read everything and contribute only if novel) is a completionist approach. Noble. Rare. But utterly exhausting on platforms designed for snacking, not feasting.

I'm not bad at social media. I'm running specialized cognitive hardware in a world that shifted to async-first without asking permission.

Full breakdown in my latest article “Why I Left Facebook (And Why I’m Back With a Link)”.