[stronglikedan]

I'd say that's not masking, since literally everyone does it. As a famous comedian that I can't quite place right now once said, (paraphrasing) "the only valid answers to "how are you doing?" are good, fine, or okay.

[pavel_lishin]

But I assume that for other people, it's easy, and doesn't take a spoon each time.

[stronglikedan]

Most people are miserable, and will respond to the contrary. It's just a bad example of masking when everybody does it equally, IMHO.