Unless you live under a rock, in which you shouldn’t be reading this, then you’ve probably heard of the new “internet sensation” Pinterst. In case you are the loser who lives under the rock, here is what you need to know:
Pinterest is a website based of the ideas of facebook, that allows users to search a catalog of millions of photos and then “repin” or share their finding with other users. Then everyone sits around the computer for hours “following” their friends by looking through their picture findings. Its pretty much google images with facebook friends.
I’m going to be honest, I have a Pinterst and while I’m not as addicted as others, I do log on daily. Mostly, because I’m bored and mostly because it’s fun to creep on your friends. Sorry Facebook, timeline is just making it to hard for me to creep conformability.
So I don’t have a problem with Pinterst and I thing it’s a wonderful idea. However, as I look through my friends “postings”, I can’t help but wonder if Pinterst is giving us a false sense of reality. Every time I log onto Pinterest, I find endless pictures of perfect weddings, perfect fashion, perfect houses, and lets be honest I’m an education major, perfect classrooms!
We all like to fantasize and admire what we don’t have. But this has taken “dreaming of the perfect future” a little too far. I don’t want to break anyone’s heart, but no ones house actual looks that perfect, and no one actual has weddings on private beaches. Unless of course, your daddy’s a millionaire or you have an uncontrollable desire to spend the rest of your life in death.
While I understand that everyone likes to look at pictures that please the eye and show off that perfect reality you always dreamed about as a kid, maybe we’ve taken it a little too far. So in a few years, when your getting married or buying your first house, do yourself a favor, don’t expect your life to be like Pintrest. The internet is not reality.
Rachel
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