Does Facebook run our life now?

Without Facebook validation, nothing seems complete, does it?
You go out for a movie, you inform people before and after. You discuss your choices for Oscars.
You go out with friends. You want to let people know where you are and with whom. You want to take pictures, so that you can upload them to Facebook and show everyone that you are a person who has fun.
A complaint often heard is, “dude don’t upload that okay! I don’t look good in that picture”. Lesson learnt: Facebook image matters.
After all, the first time you meet someone, you go home and look them up on Facebook. You go through their “info” and profile pictures, and form some sort of a judgement in your mind on what that person is like.
I do it, I am sure a lot of you do it. I know I sound cynical, i don’t mean to, but I do. But really, is this all life has been reduced to now? Or is it just a phase, which we will soon grow out of, when we go out to the real world and ‘grow up’?