If not on Facebook, are our lives real?

Guess who's back, back again?
Facebook's back, tell a friend.

Yes, we live in an enchanted land where sewer holes (I don't like the word “manhole”) are open and social media gets shut down. It's a wonderful time to be alive. I'm one for finding silver lining though. Being offline brought about some realisations: that opulent serving of kachhi biryani didn't taste that delectable without 37 likes and 3 comments; your cat didn't pull off that superhuman feat without 83 likes; you and your (in)significant other don't look that good together without the 51 comments from your peers (none from your parents, because of course you're not “friends” with them on Facebook).
Did any of it actually happen?  
   
– Karim Waheed, Editor, SHOUT