Puzzling over privacy

When I went for a walk on the beach with my cousin a couple of Sundays ago, I did not expect to find myself in a Facebook video shot and shared by someone with more than 2,500 friends. We were at Clifton Beach, the most publicly accessible and over-developed of Karachi’s shores. Plastic wrappers, soda [...]

RIP, Cliff Carle

Some people are ringing in the new year in their party clothes and hats. I’m ringing in mine in my pajamas, wondering how to memorialize a man whom I haven’t seen in two years and whose death I learned of just a few hours ago. He actually died last week. But I can’t let this [...]

Creepy or inevitable?

Imagine my surprise some weeks ago when I found this photo on an ad on my Facebook page, plugging a freelance writing site. Here was a woman who looked eerily like a younger version of my South Asian mother, asking me if I was looking for work as a writer. I’m South Asian. I’m a [...]

How to create a social media release

The difference between a social media release and a traditional press release is about the same as that between a 3-D movie and standard-definition TV. So how do you create a social media release? Read my latest post on the SmartBlog on Social Media to find out.