If Facebook were Real Life...

If Facebook would be life,

Birth would be creating an account,

Infancy, your learning period,

Which would give you time to grow your friend list count.

Childhood would be fun,

No school,

For classwork, would be updating your newest selfies,

And for homework a status update a day,

And commenting on pages, giving your say.

And then for college,

There’d be different signups for different people,

Depending on style and funk,

Login for the studious,

And logout for those who want to bunk.

At this age,

You be spammers and apparently,

Put hashtags for everything,

From canteen quarrels to torn pages,

And “reported abuse” Facebook pages!

Competition would be bugging others with shameless self-promotion,

And poking friends for recreation!

Marriage would be online,

On the event page created, but for the obnoxious-looking selfies you’ll be humiliated.

The blessings be likes and for those who were against your marriage,

shall be occasional spammers.

Your child shall come along with an FB post,

“Happy to be a Dad”-feeling Daddy with Harry (or whatever the name be) with 25 others.

The name be decided,

On a poll on FB,

Mind the quarrels under your post,

They keep happening you already know

(And the names like Tammy and Uno!).

And then for the next few years,

You have a child,

Whom you shout for not uploading a

Single photo that day,

But please be kind,

For he knows your password!

And then years later,

you have 10000 friends, a million posts, a billion likes and a thousands of comments,

but no teeth at all,

do not worry, the comment box

ain’t going anywhere.

But for the video chat with me…

Dare!!!

I am not going any further,

For till then Facebook will be something else,

Or something else, will be something else,

 But if you are the somebody behind the something else (if not your ghost)

Wait up mate!

Provided you have a Facebook Account,

I am sharing your FB post!!!

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