So, while some people may genuinely face social isolation by deleting Facebook, or professional ruin by leaving LinkedIn, chances are you're not among them – even if you feel pretty sure you are.
We may even sense a glint of vengeance; genuinely faced with death, a woman enjoys her right to plunge the dagger of lampoon into those who are healthy enough but find it socially stylish to be indisposed.
Then, two days ago, senior Tories confirmed to our chief political correspondent that Mr Cameron genuinely faces a confidence vote among MPs by summer 2014 if Tory poll ratings do not improve and if the party gets a drubbing in the local and European elections.
"Bringing them within the framework of voluntary regulation, but with a regulator enjoying independence from the industry itself so it is genuinely faced with responsibility for retraction and redress, is a necessary next step which will also reassure the traditional print press that it is not being singled out for special punishment, as they claim".
Trans men are very much affected by these sorts of laws, and some of them do genuinely also face physical danger.
Yet this spike of media attention probably has more to do with the commentariat feeling the need to write about Labour once again after a gap than with any genuinely acute problem facing Mr Miliband's party right now.
On Monday the treasurer, Scott Morrison, said the Reserve Bank was facing a genuinely challenging time as its long-standing governor, Glenn Stevens, prepared to step down next month.
The chairman of the Commons defence committee, Rory Stewart, sounded a warning that the UK was facing a "genuinely dangerous situation" with Russia.
During Mr. Habre's eight-year reign, his American and French backers often portrayed him positively, describing him as a charismatic leader and intellectual who genuinely cared about issues facing the developing world.
There are moments when doctors face genuinely tough calls about whether to let someone live or die: a soldier on a battlefield, say, who begs a doctor not to leave him behind alive.
