Girls Say They Suffer From "Pinterest Stress" - Daily Mail
Today – For many moms, social media is both a blessing and a curse. We go to sites like Pinterest and Facebook for connection and inspiration – but all too often, the beautiful images of domestic harmony make us feel inadequate. In our exclusive TODAY Moms survey of 7,000 U.S. mothers, 42 percent said that they sometimes suffer from Pinterest stress – the worry that they’re not crafty or creative enough. Symptoms include staying up until 3 a.m. clicking through photos of exquisite hand-made birthday party favors even though you’ll end up buying yours at the dollar store, or sobbing quietly into a burnt mess of expensive ingredients that were supposed to be adorable bunny cookies for the school bake sale. “It tricks you into thinking that everyone is baking their own bread,” said Jenna Andersen, 28, a Palo Alto, Calif., mom of two, photographer and blogger behind the hilarious site Pinterest Fail, which chronicles Pinterest-inspired crafts and recipes gone oh-so-wrong. She’s still a fan of the site, but she’s learned not to let herself think that the artfully curated photos represent anyone’s reality. “Pinterest is largely a site of unrealized dreams.” Andersen said she’s heard other moms say self-deprecating things like, “It was just a little party, nothing I’d put on Pinterest” — as if simply throwing an enjoyable kids’ party isn’t enough anymore. “We have a hard time enjoying our own experiences because we feel it’s not worthy of this invisible judge,” Andersen said. “It’s so easy to get depressed. You start to feel like your entire life has to be like a magazine all the time.”
Look I’m not gonna sit here and disparage stay at home moms or say that taking care of a family and a home is not hard work. But if you expect me to feel bad for you because your friends post really nice pictures of baked goods and decorations and shit like that on the internet, well I’m probably gonna laugh in your face. If you have enough time to be stressed about f’ing Pinterest, then you really dont have any stress at all.
And this is just another example of why Pinterest and Etsy and all those sites are the devil. Now you gotta listen to your girl complain about all the shit that other girls are doing and how it makes her upset she isnt doing them when she sees pictures of it on the internet. Thats some shit that our fathers and their fathers before them didnt have to worry about.
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