By Keith Pereña
Sending a message across the Internet is one of the privileges we rarely take for granted. Back in ‘my day’ (read: The 1990s) Yahoo’s Messenger was a revelation because my siblings and I were able to speak to our parents who were based in Sharjah — in real-time. They could read our messages as soon as we sent them. There was no need to wait for postcards or worry about what hour of day they would call.
Continue reading Can you reply to me with more than just thumbs? Please?
By Dhanusha Gokulan
I admit I’m an Instagram addict. However, I do not post pictures or videos. Instead, I lurk through thousands of profiles, hashtags, and trending videos. I even have two profiles on Instagram, one private and one public.
Continue reading Heard about that new app sensation that goes TikTok?
By Asma Ali Zain
I came across an image a few weeks ago of a group of veiled women walking in one direction and one of them, apparently breaking the ranks, walking in the opposite direction with a magazine in her hand.
Continue reading One image is all you need to get caught in a deluge of hate
By Sarwat Nasir
Armchair philosophers have long debated whether the chicken came first or the egg. In the crazy digital world, and moving with the times, that age-old existential question would have to be rephrased: what’s more important, the chicken or the egg? Depends on who has more likes on Instagram and retweets on Twitter. The only reliable measure of what is truly important these days, of course.
By Nivriti Butalia
A recent Gillette ad has divided people. Some hate it; some are saying, well done. I am in that ‘well done’ camp.
Continue reading Why are some men on edge over a sharp, sensible ad?
By Sushmita Bose
People do the strangest things for the sake of world records. They immerse themselves in snow for hours on end — clad in nothing but swimming trunks — to own the honours of being The One who spent the longest time in “direct full body contact” with freezing point. Or they cover their selves with bees: the more the better — because that’ll make them queen (or king) of an alternative, and human, version of the beehive. And so on.
Continue reading An easy 100 million yen. All you had to do was hit retweet
By Anita Iyer
All good things come to an end, they say. And we’re sad to see Swedes give up the official @Sweden handle on Twitter.
‘Curators of Sweden’, a project that started in December 2011 as an experiment which allowed a Swede to tweet for a week, came to an end on September 30.
Continue reading What if you were in charge of tweets for @OfficiallyDubai?
