My mom maintains a diary. I maintain a Facebook timeline. Every time she searches for hard copy archives, I ask her to prep one Facebook profile. Since her skepticism abounds, I cite numerous examples from the virtual world where people share so much that even if they were to forget their life’s events, the world would still remember; not that the world cares! The last date and time they exhibited love for one another, honeymoon check-in and honey soon checkout, the week they last clicked a photu looking in each other's eyes, meals devoured and wallet times day celebrated! To sum it up, it’s always nice to have a back-up wherein everyone knows what you did last summer, previous winter and the forthcoming rainy. My mom, though, is still not convinced. She belongs to the “Vividh Bharti” mindset, where expressions of love were very private, and public exhibitions strictly meant readymade clothing, vessels and dress material. That said, proponents of Artificial Intelligence and supercomputing, is there some way that virtual love and compliments displayed on-screen translate to the real world? Yes? The world then would be such a better place, Indians wouldn’t spend 500,000 dollars for a US citizenship and Mom would still get to maintain her diary. #MarkShutTheBug