How very Pinteresting

     First it was Facebook. I am sure that the adoring masses have read my not so recent blog about what my 400 closest friends are doing. If you took the time to read that you probably came away with the impression that I did not really care what they were doing. I think that my care has degraded even further now.

     Besides that, I have discovered something worse than Facebook. When I say discovered, I mean shown to me without any curiosity on my part, and probably against my will. This new horror is the social networking site Pinterest.

     Just examining the name PIN - to attach, hold, or fasten with or as if with a pin or pins (by the way there are 25 definitions of the word pin) and INTEREST - the sense of curiosity about or concern with something or someone. Put definitions together and you get To Attach Something Of Curiosity. Amazingly enough, this is just how Pinterest describes itself. Pinterest is an online pin board. If that is not enough of a description, let's see what trusty ole Wikipedia has to say on the matter.

     My girlfriend started pinteresting a couple of months ago. "Pinteresting" is that even a word? How about pinning? Spellcheck says that is a word yes. Anyhow, back to the point, she started using this site a couple of months back and on the first day seemed to hate it. Now, she seems mesmerized by it, almost in a cultish manner. Just last night we were sitting on the couch and she was showing me all of her pins, and other peoples pins and how the pins were going to rule the world (well, I think that is where the conversation was going but I didn't really get that far in it). 

     Of all of the pins that she had, none where what you would call in my level of interest, so she decided to do some snooping I mean browsing other user pins. And of course the first thing that she looks for in my interest level is Zombies. That's right freaking zombies. The oddest part about this is that while yes, I do like the occasional zombie, and one of my best friend dresses as a zombie, they are not that significant to me.

     Please comment below if you happen to know any of these zombies. Thanks

     Believe it or not, there was quiet the decent amount of pinteresting stuff on zombies. Well, actually there were only a few things but there were a lot of re-posts on them. Finding said zombies continued the conversation between the girlfriend and I about pinterest, and I jokingly decide that I am going to make the ultimate Pinterest page. The girlfriend at this point is shaking her head because as anyone that knows me understands I am the "go big or go home" guy. For example this is the camping chair I use.

Stock photo so no, i don't know who this woman is. Stop asking

     With my new found Pinterest locked inside the cranium, I sit down this morning to create the world's greatest pinterest page, or at least the most obscure one only to be confronted with the fact that I can't just create a pinterest page. Oh nooooooo, I have to ask to be invited (I mean really, I have to be invited to your stupid little party? Do I even really want to go? Is this high school again?). Even with this small challenge I decide to knuckle down on my pride and ask for an invitation. Well, they have to email me, and this is what I get.

Hi!
Thanks for requesting an invite. We'll be sure to send one soon.
In the meantime, feel free to explore a few pins.
We're excited to get you pinning soon!
—Ben and the Pinterest Team

     Who the heck is Ben, and why is he deny me my destiny of creating the ultimate pinterest page? Isn't pinterest a cutting edge social media site where everyone shares way too much information about themselves? I do not know for sure, because I cannot use the site but I have heard it is very similar to Twitter and Facebook and the other social media sites. So, why can I not just sign up and start pouring my guts out to millions of people that I do not know through the use of digital image pins? Then it hits me.

Ben probably isn't even his real name. I bet it is Mr. Smith

     Ben is a secret agent and the "Pinterest Team" is a secret government agency that is working on ways to better spy on our citizenry. And, what better way to do it than with a cute looking website that everyone posts their favorite things on without a care in the world who is watching or in this case, tracking their every move. 

     That thought really explains a lot about why the black helicopter that flies over my house every week seems to coincide with the girlfriend's computer usage.