I know I'm getting old because I can't work out Pinterest. I don't know where to click or how it works, and - having optimistically signed up - what its friendly emails are trying to get me to do. Why are people following me, anyway? I have no pins! How do I like a pin? Too many Pins, everywhere! Argh!
Specifically: Grain-free, sugar-free, dairy-free, "cakes", twee 60s side tables, and black and white images of painfully cool Joan Didion. It's a land of twee delights that looks dreamy and all, but (guilty admission) I never did get around to reading that Joan Didion, and I've only just found a failsafe way to poach eggs (put in a bowl of boiling water and microwave for 30 seconds). Entering the Pinterest world of mirage-like food might very well trigger some sort of terrible anarchist reaction in me, whereby I end up in McDonalds every night, munching despondently on fries.
Then there's the oft-discussed abundance of wedding-themed Pins, which surely make up at least half the entire site's content. Thousands of photos of dresses, veils, flower arrangements, table lay outs, cakes, rings, macaron displays - so many, many macaron displays. Anything you can imagine that's even remotely related to that Special Day. People are obsessed.
Anyway. If any boys out there are reading this and want to join in the fun, except it all sounds too girly, there is now a Pinterest for men: Manteresting. An estimated 80 per cent of Pinterest users are female - despite proclamations by its founders that "the act of collecting is a universal behavior" - so it was just a matter of time, really.
Over at Manteresting, instead of pinning things, you "nail" them. And instead of "liking" them, you "bump" them. (Presumably after the knuckle greeting used by urbane dudebros.) The array of manly things you "nail" are gathered together at your "workbench" to admire. More than 75,000 things have been shared on the site already: largely women in their underwear, inspirational quotes about fitness, alcohol (beer, mainly) and handy projects like "Floating shelf with Secret Compartment". Although, who knows how many of them have been thrown into the mix by Manteresting's founders.
