You could think about it as 'real-time' in the sense that you can see the status of the sharing in 'real-time' - i.e. within Kik I can see if the content has be

You could think about it as 'real-time' in the sense that you can see the status of the sharing in 'real-time' - i.e. within Kik I can see if the content has been sent/delivered/read (vs sharing via something like email where it's not clear if it's been looked at). But ya, it's not a real-time unbroken pipe between your app users.