If all you Pinterest enthusiasts haven’t heard…the website announced today that you can now have….drumroll please…SECRET BOARDS. Gasp.
This may seem like a trivial announcement to some, but for social media gurus like myself, it is colossal, genius and you may even go as far to call it revolutionary. According to the website, the secret boards are “great for secret Christmas shopping!” and all that, but us twenty-somethings know better.
Here are the top three reasons that you, too, should be overly and somewhat inappropriately excited about Secret Pinterest Boards:
- You can now plan your secret wedding without your boyfriend knowing or without fearing virtual pin-criticism because you’re single. If you are like me, the wedding category is top priority when browsing Pinterest. And let’s be real, seating assignment chalkboards, photo-booth guest entertainment and the famous “I DO” written on the bottom of your wedding shoes didn’t just magically become trends. Pinterest has single-handedly transformed the DIY wedding. If you are UNLIKE me, you have a boyfriend. And that boyfriend may be freaked out by the fact that you just pinned 17 photos of bridesmaid dress color combinations or your dream engagement ring that costs about the same as Jennifer Aniston’s. And all to your “Future Plans” Pinterest board. You better believe this will freak him out, it freaks me out when I see it on my homepage! And ladies, it’s even sadder if you’re single. Solution: pin your bouquet arrangements and “50 ways to have a godly marriage” advice to your secret board, and keep that crap under wraps.
- There is finally a way to pin your diet tips AND unhealthy recipes at the same time without feeling pin-guilt. The Fitness category on Pinterest is actually legitimately helpful, and this is coming from someone whose daily cardio consists of walking up my apartment stairs. I, like most twenty-somethings, frequently entertain tiny spurts of juice fasts and no-carb diets, most of which usually happen before a wedding or sorority formal and also most of which are not successful. You can almost always detect my dieting sprees by my pins to my Recipe Board, which sometimes include protein shakes and low-carb tilapia recipes and other times includes no-bake peanut butter cookies and taco dip. Props to Pinterest for finally allowing me to both pretend to be health-concise and pin-fully delicious cookie recipes at the same time. Secretly.
- Your guilty pleasures can now be pinned without worry of pin-judgement and social suicide. We all have guilty pleasures that Pinterest unknowingly fuels and gets the worst of us. Maybe you actually really think Rebecca Black is a gifted singer and a treasure to our generation. Maybe you really just appreciate a good Drake quote. Or maybe you have a small obsession with photos of babies in buckets. Pin those embarrassing guilty pleasures to your secret board and don’t fell an ounce of embarrassment ever again.
