I’m positive that if Pinterest were a person she would be a snob.
She’d be the kind of snob that wouldn’t ask for a slice of lemon with her water, but tip her waiter 5 percent because there wasn’t a slice of lemon with her water. She would turn her nose up at anything that wasn’t boutique, and she would put organic groceries in the cart even though you two were splitting it.
At first her friends were cowed by her DIY savagery and unbeatable no-bake Oreo crumbles, but it wouldn’t be long before they started talking behind her back.
Pinterest was so fresh and innovative when it first hit the social media scene, but seven years of ruthless self-promotion and exposed brick asbestos have made her cold hearted and light headed.
She might seem sweet, but here are six ways Pinterest has ruined my life.
Pinterest Pin-up Girl
Aside from ruining my house with all the other DIY masochism that Pinterest has suggested, the social media site has also thrown a few body blows to my self-esteem.
As if ruining my house wasn’t enough, now I can’t scroll through the pin board without seeing a million healthy recipes and workout routines.
Every time I see a new way to sneak zucchini past my sweet tooth I’m reminded that I could be eating healthy and doing what are apparently very simple ab and butt workouts.
God, Pinterest, get off my back! Shat if I happen to like the squishy parts of my body? And no thank you, I will never in a million years stop eating unhealthy. Contrary to popular belief, gluten isn’t an anagram for Satan.
Invite Only
When I first tried to become part of Pinterest, I had to request an invite. How rude is that? A social media site that’s too cool for you. That’s basically hipster before hipster was hipster.
Though the process has changed to simply creating an account, I still remember that feeling of being exiled. Don’t let their newer, more inclusive approach to membership fool you. Pinterest is an asshole.
That Could be in a Mason Jar
The “put literally everything in unmarked mason jars and weird containers” trend has been the most detrimental to my mental health.
My mom hopped on that bandwagon years ago by putting all our baking necessities in unmarked containers. Then she put all containers on the same shelf in the pantry.
To the untrained eye, powdered sugar is the same thing as baking powder (so is our cocaine, but my mom keeps that jar for herself). Long story short, I put baking powder on my French toast, and it made me choke. Thanks for ruining my breakfast, Pinterest.
Crayon the King of Art
When crayon art became a big thing I thought I’d take a go at it, so I bought a pack of fresh Crayolas and glued them to a canvas in the shape of a heart.
I turned on the blow dryer and melted those babies until there was hot wax all over the place, but I’m not exaggerating when I say all over the place.
It was on the floor, the table, in my hair and all over my skin. Thank you for all the burns, Pinterest.
Face Your Flaws
I’m fully aware an angel didn’t hand-primp my eyebrows, but Pinterest’s deluge of step-by-step guides for improving your face have only made me notice the flaws in my features more.
Whether it’s drawing on eyebrows, over-lining lips to make them look bigger or contouring your features to transform your bone structure, most of the time the average woman is terrible at it. Instead, the guides leave you with massive eyebrows that terrify young children.
Super Soaper
Though Pinterest has craft and cooking ideas that the average person can’t accomplish without risking personal injury, they do have some pretty good toothpaste, deodorant, soap and wax recipes.
The only issue is that all those things already exist.
I’d way rather brush my teeth with normal toothpaste than an ashen mixture that’s probably kept in some sort of unmarked jar (I’ll bet you $10 my mom has one in her vanity). Plus, who wants to actually wax themselves? Personally, I’d rather poke myself in the eye.
After having smoke spill from the oven after another failed attempt at Pinterest cookies, covering my forearms with mini burns and dusting my French toast with baking powder, I decided it was time to remove myself from the social media torture chamber.
My life can’t handle that kind stress. And even though now I rarely go on the site, I still tremble in fear when my mom says she’s doing something new that she found on Pinterest.
I’m with you on this. Since you wrote this article pininterest has managed to come up in excess in a normal google search. All I want to do is a little normal research on something and boom there it is forcing you to download the mobile app. just to view content with no way to bypass. This is why I chose sucks in my search. It it wasn’t bad enough that that it had too much useless content that sucked, now its made searches a pain in the butt. So I appreciate your attempt to get your take on pininterest out to those that need to snap out of it.
Will, next google search you do, type in
-site:pinterest.com
before you type what you’re looking for, it will remove all pinterest results. Cause we all know-pinterest SUCKS.
kucf pinterest, thats my opinion!
Pinterest suspended me for posting copyrighted material that was not posted as such.
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I used to love pinning cool pics, interesting designs, abstract art etc but they’ve become so super sensitive with arbitrary removal of boards and suspending accounts willy nilly with no information or idea of which pin apparently breached their super sensitive policies. Just incredibly frustrating. I’m pretty sure they have a dept full of 10 year old’s vetting the boards (either that or pensioners!) and if they see so much as a female ear or ankle or whatever…pin removed. If a few removed, board taken down, if a few taken down, suspension!
I give up. Ive backed up all my boards, removed 1000’s of pics in fear of boards being removed and no way to get my pics back
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I had no idea you could do that to exclude results. You’ve made me a very happy searcher, and much relieved from the overload of posts. I don’t want an account and you can’t view diddly unless you sign up.
had mine suspended just now 3/10/2017, no notifications or questions…I had gotten flagged by some snob, who thought (his/her) or (hers/his) pin was wronged by me, no questions for me just “wham” how dare you!
I knew this would be bad in the long run, all my ideas and drawings are now in the hands of others who think they are great because they reposted them…never saw them on the internet before me…oh well more space on my HDD
From my perspective, Pinterest makes people insane in searching for unicorns of the “perfect paint color”. Literally anyone can post random images with their opinion (usually un-trained) on the colors shown. You do realize that colors don’t necessarily photograph accurately, right? In addition, every monitor displays the photo a little differently.
Not to mention, the whole space shown could be radically different from your own. And just changing a wall color isn’t going to give you that same look.
If you want to browse Pinterest for fun, or general ideas, fine. But don’t think you are going to solve complex color and design problems just by favoriting a couple of images.
My sense (and I could be wrong) is that Pinterest, like the manufactured images on Facebook, inspires a constant feeling that you are never doing enough, your house is never perfect enough, you are not thin enough or stylish enough… and this from someone whose career is based on those very issues! I embrace the search for beauty, whether human or environmental… but for heaven’s sake, there is a point. I love improving aesthetics, but my God – there are serious problems in this world. Let’s not lose sight of that, going down the rabbit hole of Pinterest (or whatever brand’s) snobbery.
Pinterest sucks! When it first started I jumped on the bandwagon, jumped right off that overwhelming crap.
Joined again a year ago and I am left brain dead again. I do a simple search on google and Pinterest is right up my a** again.
Thanks for the info to rid my life of Pinterest! I just want a color for my livingroom, instead I get colors for bathrooms, bedrooms, kitchens and exterior paint.
Pinterest is a terrible way to choose paint colors. If you need specific help, hire a color consultant in your area. If you can’t find one, email me directly from my website, and I’ll help you best I can from photographs.
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