Having a realtime feed of your friends&#x27; and acquaintances&#x27;  lives pushed to you 24&#x2F;7 is a completely new thing in the history of human social interaction.<p>We are not, as you say, &quot;engineering people to be terrible at handling the complexities of interpersonal relationships.&quot;  
Rather, we are completely overloading people with social data.  It&#x27;s not surprising that this should be emotionally taxing in ways humans have never before had to deal with.