Sana Khalid 
Imagine people in cities as apps that can be downloaded? Assuming Pakistani cities as social media apps, they would have a flawless digital representation of how people interact, socialize, and live daily. Every big city has its own beat–some of them loud, some smooth, some quiet mighty.
Lahore is a good fit for Facebook, where they thrive on culture, food, meetings, and regular social news. Karachi is a reflection of Twitter (X): quick, disorderly, political, and in trend. Islamabad is consistent with LinkedIn- formal, curated and networked. Peshawar can be compared to YouTube, where there is a lot of long-form storytelling and culturally rich narrative.
How City Culture Shapes Digital Identity
Rawalpindi can be regarded as a source of TikTok power, raw, expressive, and action-packed, whereas Multan can be seen as an Instagram power that is based on aesthetics and spiritual traditions. Quetta is a good fit with Snapchat, enigmatic and picturesque, with beauty that can be seen in the length of a minute. Faisalabad operates in a similar way as WhatsApp: it is useful, diligent, and necessary to keep business running.
Finally, the cities in Pakistan are digital apps, so the analogy is the reflection of the social real-life organisation through digital behaviour. And when you do see it, when Pakistani cities become social media apps, it becomes less of a satire and more of city realness.
